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Roll Call
April 10, 2018
Senate Republicans officially chose Sen. Richard C. Shelby as Appropriations chairman on Tuesday after his fellow Republicans ratified the Committee's Monday evening vote during a closed-door lunch. David Popp, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., confirmed the AlabamaÃâà...
Roll Call
April 10, 2018
Senate Republicans on Monday threw cold water on a forthcoming proposal from the White House that will ask Congress to cut previously enacted spending, including from the $1.3 trillion spending bill that President Donald Trump signed last month. Republican lawmakers are concerned about howÃâà...
New York Times
March 30, 2018
Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama and the incoming chairman, has been assuring colleagues that he wants to return to the old ways of bringing individual bills to the floor — though floor time is ultimately apportioned by Mr. McConnell. With overall spending levels already set for the comingÃâà...
Roll Call
March 7, 2018
Sen. Richard C. Shelby, the expected next chairman of the Appropriations Committee, will slide into the role with much of the grunt work already done. With a slimmed-down legislative agenda, no major policy initiatives on the horizon and spending levels for fiscal 2019 already agreed to, the timing is goodÃâà...
New York Times
February 24, 2016
Senator Richard C. Shelby, the Alabama Republican who is the committee's chairman, looked on in the manner of someone who had just been served sour milk. As he seeks his sixth term with an anxious eye out for a primary challenger on his right flank, Mr. Shelby, 81, is leaving nothing to chance — evenÃâà...
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