Richard Shelby

Shelby was born in Birmingham, Alabama,{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/elections/2004/candidates/22932/|title=Richard C. Shelby, Jr.|date=June 30, 2004|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=February 23, 2009|archive-date=April 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415045846/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/elections/2004/candidates/22932/|url-status=live}} the son of Alice L. (née Skinner) and Ozie Houston Shelby.{{cite web |url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/senators/shelby.htm |title=1 |publisher=Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com |access-date=November 3, 2010 |archive-date=May 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200513160710/http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~battle/genealogy/senators/shelby.htm |url-status=live }} He graduated in 1953 from Hueytown High School in Hueytown, Alabama, then the University of Alabama, receiving an undergraduate degree in 1957. He was admitted to the Alabama State Bar on August 29, 1961. He received an LL.B. from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1963.

Shelby is a member of the American Bar Association, the Alabama State Bar, the American Judicature Society, Alabama Law Institute, Delta Chi fraternity, and Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity.

Shelby was a city prosecutor in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, from 1963 to 1971.{{cite news|url=http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/S000320|title=Richard Shelby (R)|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=June 4, 2014|archive-date=June 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606204443/http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/S000320|url-status=live}} From 1966 to 1970, he was a U.S. Magistrate for the Northern District of Alabama; from 1969 to 1971, he was a special assistant state attorney general.

Shelby was elected to the Alabama Senate in 1970 and served until 1978. That year he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Tuscaloosa-based 7th district upon Walter Flowers's retirement. He was reelected three times. Shelby was one of the more conservative Democrats in Congress, and a member of the boll weevils, a group of moderate to conservative-leaning Democrats who often worked with President Ronald Reagan on defense issues.{{cite web|url=http://conservativeamerica-online.com/conservative-senators-6-richard-shelby/|title=Conservative Senators – #6 – Richard Shelby|work=conservativeamerica-online.com|access-date=August 2, 2016|archive-date=October 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003134306/http://conservativeamerica-online.com/conservative-senators-6-richard-shelby/|url-status=live}}

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In the 1986 U.S. Senate election in Alabama, Shelby won the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat held by Republican Jeremiah Denton, the first Republican elected to the Senate from Alabama since Reconstruction. He won a very close race as the Democrats regained control of the Senate.

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Shelby was easily reelected even as Bill Clinton lost Alabama's electoral votes.

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On November 9, 1994, Shelby switched his party affiliation to Republican, one day after the Republican Revolution in which Republicans won control of both houses in the midterm elections, giving them a 53–47 majority in the Senate. He won his first full term as a Republican in 1998 by a large margin.

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He faced no significant opposition in 2004.{{cite news|title=Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.)|url=http://www.rollcall.com/members/11.html|access-date=August 15, 2014|publisher=Roll Call|archive-date=August 24, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140824182706/http://www.rollcall.com/members/11.html|url-status=live}}

A September 2009 poll showed Shelby had a 58% approval rating, with 35% disapproving.{{cite web |url=http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=be14ad40-d8e9-4c99-8100-57f0f59fa64b |title=SurveyUSA News Poll #15743 |publisher=Surveyusa.com |access-date=August 29, 2010 |archive-date=June 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605215535/http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=be14ad40-d8e9-4c99-8100-57f0f59fa64b |url-status=live }}

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He again faced no significant opposition and was reelected to a fifth term.

In 2014, The Wall Street Journal criticized Shelby for hoarding campaign and PAC contributions and not sharing them with colleagues.

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He was reelected to a sixth term.{{cite web|url=http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/06/could_the_tea_party_challenge.html#incart_river|title=Could the Tea Party challenge Sen. Richard Shelby? Sure, but there are $17 million reasons not to|work=AL.com|date=June 30, 2014|access-date=July 1, 2014|first=Charles|last=Dean|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304132800/http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/06/could_the_tea_party_challenge.html#incart_river|url-status=live}}

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File:Reagan Contact Sheet C47700 (cropped).jpg Ronald Reagan in 1988]]In 1987, Shelby opposed Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, a move attributed to lobbying by Alabama African-American leaders who reminded Shelby that he had relied on support from black voters in narrowly defeating Denton in 1986. In 1991, Shelby supported President George H. W. Bush's conservative Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/55748032.html?dids=55748032:55748032&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+05%2C+1987&author=Bob+Minzesheimer&pub=USA+TODAY+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=President+to+stick+with+Bork+to+end&pqatl=google |work=USA TODAY |title=President to stick with Bork to end |first=Bob |last=Minzesheimer |date=October 5, 1987 |access-date=July 7, 2017 |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025125354/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/55748032.html?dids=55748032:55748032&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+05,+1987&author=Bob+Minzesheimer&pub=USA+TODAY+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=President+to+stick+with+Bork+to+end&pqatl=google |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/104734077.html?dids=104734077:104734077&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+07%2C+1987&author=By+Susan+Page.+Newsday+Washington+Bureau&pub=Newsday+%28Combined+editions%29&desc=Heflin%3A+When+in+Doubt%2C+Don%27t&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713093117/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/104734077.html?dids=104734077:104734077&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+07,+1987&author=By+Susan+Page.+Newsday+Washington+Bureau&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Heflin:+When+in+Doubt,+Don't&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 13, 2012 |title=Heflin: When in Doubt, Don't |date=October 7, 1987 }}

In 1991, Shelby sponsored legislation granting federal recognition to the MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians. Though confident it would pass, Shelby stressed the "need to get more documentation regarding establishment of their tribal identity." The Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs voted 11 to 2 in favor of the legislation on July 18.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/04/us/new-ways-to-recognize-tribes-split-indians.html|title=New Ways to Recognize Tribes Split Indians|date=August 4, 1991|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 19, 2018|archive-date=October 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019205741/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/04/us/new-ways-to-recognize-tribes-split-indians.html|url-status=live}}

Shelby publicly feuded with President Bill Clinton during the first half of Clinton's first term. At a meeting with Vice President Al Gore, he turned to the TV cameras and denounced the Clinton program as "high on taxes, low on [spending] cuts".[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/107016266/ Indianapolis Star, March 19, 1997, p. 7]{{subscription required}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026163111/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/107016266/ |date=October 26, 2016 }}.

Shelby served on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from 1995 to 2003, stepping down because of a Senate rule limiting committee terms to eight years. He took an adversarial stance toward the intelligence community during both the Clinton and Bush administrations. He helped sink Anthony Lake's nomination as CIA director in 1997 and promised to investigate the use of American-made satellites by the Chinese to gather intelligence. Shelby took a hard line on leaks of classified information. In 2000 he introduced a bill, vetoed by Clinton, "that would have broadened the law that criminalizes release of national defense information."Pincus, Walter (February 17, 2006). "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/16/AR2006021602186.html Senator May Seek Tougher Law on Leaks] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109010042/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/16/AR2006021602186.html |date=November 9, 2017 }}", The Washington Post According to The Washington Post:

Civil liberties groups and news organizations, which argued that the legislation would chill their ability to get information from officials, lobbied for the veto. ...In 2002, with George W. Bush in the White House, Shelby reintroduced his language, but then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft said that "rigorous investigation" and enforcement of existing laws—not new legislation—were the best way to fight leaks.

In 1991, Shelby supported the Crime Bill S.1241{{cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=102&session=1&vote=00125 |title=U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home > Votes > Roll Call Vote |publisher=Senate.gov |access-date=November 3, 2010 |archive-date=December 15, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215221311/http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=102&session=1&vote=00125 |url-status=live }} sponsored by Senator Joseph Biden that instituted a national waiting period for handgun purchases as well as a federal ban on semi-automatic firearms.{{cite web |last=Biden |first=Joseph |title=S.1241 |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/senate-bill/1241 |date=June 6, 1991 |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=November 23, 2019 |archive-date=February 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226142443/https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/senate-bill/1241 |url-status=live }}

In January 1992, Shelby met with Chair of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan, advocating that the basic cost of money be reduced from 3.5% to 3% to stimulate the economy. He confirmed afterward that he intended to vote for Greenspan for another term as Federal Reserve Chair and said that Greenspan was not opposed to his suggestion to cut the discount rate to its lowest in 20 years in addition to agreeing with him on the need for a restoration of investment tax credits and a special tax rate for capital gains along with the providing of incentives to encourage savings.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19920129&id=LF4eAAAAIBAJ&pg=3682,3633754|title=Shelby urges another cut in interest rates|date=January 29, 1992|work=TimesDaily|location=Florence, Alabama|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=February 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212223006/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19920129&id=LF4eAAAAIBAJ&pg=3682%2C3633754|url-status=live}}

In 1992, Shelby's aide Tom Barnes was murdered in a hold-up robbery. In response, Shelby supported the reinstatement of the death penalty in D.C.{{cite news |last1=McGrady |first1=Clyde |title=How the murder of a young Senate aide ushered in the 'tough on crime' era |url=https://rollcall.com/2019/04/30/how-the-murder-of-a-young-senate-aide-ushered-in-the-tough-on-crime-era/ |date=April 30, 2019}}

In 1999, Shelby opposed the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, which repealed parts of the Glass–Steagall Legislation, and was the only Republican senator and one of eight senators overall to vote against it.{{cite web |url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-10-23/consumer-unit-born-of-2008-crisis-would-be-shelby-target |title=Consumer Unit Born of 2008 Crisis Would Be Shelby Target |work=Businessweek |date=October 23, 2014 |access-date=October 27, 2014 |archive-date=November 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108010011/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-10-23/consumer-unit-born-of-2008-crisis-would-be-shelby-target |url-status=dead }}Congressional roll-call: [https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=1&vote=00354 S.900 as reported by conferees: Financial Services Act of 1999, Record Vote No: 354] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180215044951/https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=1&vote=00354 |date=February 15, 2018 }}, November 4, 1999, Clerk of the Senate. Sortable unofficial table: [http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/106/senate/1/votes/354/ On Agreeing to the Conference Report, S.900 Gramm-Bliley-Leach Act, roll call 354, 106th Congress, 1st session] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150803061353/http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/106/senate/1/votes/354/ |date=August 3, 2015 }}. Votes Database at The Washington Post, retrieved on October 9, 2008Fifty-two Republicans and 38 Democrats voted for the bill. Shelby voted against it as did seven Democratic Senators: Barbara Boxer (Calif.), Richard Bryan (Nevada), Byron Dorgan (N. Dakota), Russell Feingold (Wisc.), Tom Harkin (Iowa), Barbara Mikulski (Maryland) and Paul Wellstone (Minn.). Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-Illinois) voted "present", while Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) did not vote.

On February 12, 1999, Shelby was one of 50 senators to vote to convict and remove Bill Clinton from office.{{cite news|title=Roll Call of Votes on Articles of Impeachment|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/politics/021399ap-rollcall-vote.html|newspaper=The New York Times|agency=Associated Press|date=February 12, 1999|access-date=December 29, 2019|archive-date=January 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200106164903/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/politics/021399ap-rollcall-vote.html|url-status=live}}

Shelby was highly critical of CIA Director George Tenet in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.{{cite web |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002-10-09-tenet_x.htm |title=CIA director's allies outrank his enemies |work=USA Today |access-date=August 2, 2016 |archive-date=March 9, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309051421/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002-10-09-tenet_x.htm |url-status=live }} From 2003 until 2007, he chaired the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.{{cite web|url=http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2015/01/ala_sen_richard_shelby_named_t.html|title=Alabama Senator Richard Shelby named chairman of the Senate Banking Committee|work=al.com|date=January 8, 2015|access-date=August 2, 2016|archive-date=August 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809123315/http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2015/01/ala_sen_richard_shelby_named_t.html|url-status=live}} As of 2022,{{cite web |title=Committee members |url=https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/about/members |website=appropriations.senate.gov |publisher=Committee on Appropriations |access-date=25 April 2022}} he was a member of the Appropriations Committee and chaired its subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science{{cite web |title=Shelby Statement on Commerce-Justice-Science FY15 Appropriations Bill Markup |url=https://www.shelby.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2014/6/shelby-statement-on-commerce-justice-science-fy15-appropriations-bill-markup |website=shelby.senate.gov |publisher=United States Senate |access-date=25 April 2022}} and was formerly a member of the Special Committee on Aging.{{citation needed|date=June 2015}} He lost his chairmanships in 2007 when Democrats regained control of the Senate.

In 2004, a federal investigation concluded that Shelby revealed classified information to the media while a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.{{cite news |author=Lengel, Allan |author2=Priest, Dana |title=Investigators Concluded Shelby Leaked Message |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40886-2004Aug4.html |newspaper=Washington Post |date=August 5, 2004 |access-date=August 23, 2008 |archive-date=September 17, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917173036/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40886-2004Aug4.html |url-status=live }} Specifically, he revealed classified information on June 19, 2002, to Carl Cameron, the chief political correspondent on Fox News. The information consisted of two messages between Al-Qaeda operatives intercepted by the National Security Agency on September 10, 2001, but not translated until the day after the attacks—"the match is about to begin" and "tomorrow is zero hour." The Department of Justice declined to file criminal charges against Shelby and transferred the case to the Senate Ethics Committee. In 2005 the committee concluded its probe into the leak.{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/13/AR2005111301397.html|title=Committee Ends Leak Probe of Sen. Shelby|first=Jeffrey|last=McMurray|access-date=August 2, 2016|via=washingtonpost.com|archive-date=November 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125113720/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/13/AR2005111301397.html|url-status=live}}

As chair of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs, Shelby opposed legislation that would have permitted additional competition in the title insurance industry.{{cite news|author=Scott Woolley |url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1113/148_print.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061208072451/http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1113/148_print.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 8, 2006 |title=Magazine Article |work=Forbes.com |date= November 13, 2006|access-date=November 3, 2010}}

Shelby co-chaired the Congressional Privacy Caucus and Zero Capital Gains Tax Caucus.{{cite web|url=https://www.crowdpac.com/candidates/181514/richard-shelby|title=Richard Shelby – Candidate for US Senate in Alabama (AL) – Crowdpac|work=crowdpac.com|access-date=August 2, 2016|archive-date=November 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161119011120/https://www.crowdpac.com/candidates/181514/richard-shelby|url-status=live}} He was also the Senate co-chair of the National Security Caucus and a member of the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Senate Centrist Coalition.

In March 2009, as the Obama administration was expected to reverse limits on embryonic stem-cell research imposed by the Bush administration, Shelby said, "My basic tenet here is I don't think we should create life to enhance life and to do research and so forth. I know that people argue there are other ways. I think we should continue our biomedical research everywhere we can, but we should have some ethics about it."{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/08/obama.stem.cells/index.html|title=Embryonic stem cell reversal is distraction, congressman says|date=March 8, 2009|publisher=CNN|access-date=November 4, 2018|archive-date=November 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104125943/http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/08/obama.stem.cells/index.html|url-status=live}} Later that month, he was one of 14 senators to vote against a procedural move that essentially guaranteed a major expansion of a national service corps. The Congressional Budget Office estimated the bill's cost for the fiscal year 2010 of $418 million and around $5.7 billion for 2010 through 2014.{{cite news|url=https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/national-service-corps-bill-clears-senate-hurdle/|title=National Service Corps Bill Clears Senate Hurdle|first=Kate|last=Phillips|date=March 23, 2009|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 16, 2019|archive-date=February 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207201750/https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/national-service-corps-bill-clears-senate-hurdle/|url-status=live}}

In February 2010, Shelby placed a hold on more than 70 of Obama's nominees to various government posts, in a protest over an Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker contract and the FBI's Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center.{{cite news | title=No Holds Barred | work=The New York Times | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/opinion/06collins.html | date=February 6, 2010 | first=Gail | last=Collins | access-date=May 22, 2010 | archive-date=February 18, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218092710/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/opinion/06collins.html | url-status=live }}{{cite news | url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/12/cnn-fact-check-how-transparent-is-the-senates-hold-process/?fbid=KUvAvc_LwuX | work=CNN Fact Check | title=How transparent is the Senate's hold process? | access-date=May 22, 2010 | date=February 12, 2010 | archive-date=February 19, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219054900/http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/12/cnn-fact-check-how-transparent-is-the-senates-hold-process/?fbid=KUvAvc_LwuX | url-status=dead }}Wilson, Scott., Murray, Shailagh. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/05/AR2010020502098.html Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama holding up Obama nominees for home-state pork.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130015446/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/05/AR2010020502098.html |date=November 30, 2016 }} The Washington Post. February 6, 2010. He lifted all but three of the holds three days later, saying, "The purpose of placing numerous holds was to get the White House's attention on two issues that are critical to our national security—the Air Force's aerial refueling tanker acquisition and the FBI's Terrorist Device Analytical Center (TEDAC). With that accomplished, Sen. Shelby has decided to release his holds on all but a few nominees directly related to the Air Force tanker acquisition until the new Request for Proposal is issued."{{cite web |url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32718.html#ixzz0fOtYDadW |title=Richard Shelby lifts hold on Obama nominees |author=Meredith Shiner |date=February 8, 2010 |publisher=Politico.Com |access-date=August 29, 2010 |archive-date=February 12, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100212190656/http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32718.html#ixzz0fOtYDadW |url-status=live }} White House spokesman Robert Gibbs criticized Shelby for "hold[ing] up qualified nominees for positions that are needed because he didn't get two earmarks"; Shelby denied the holds were over earmarks.

Shelby's high campaign contribution spending has been criticized; from 2008 until 2014 he had reimbursed himself and his wife more than $500,000 from his campaign and leadership PACs.{{cite news|author1=Colby Itkowitz|title=Sen. Shelby eats and travels in style on campaign and PAC funds, but doesn't share|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2014/10/01/sen-shelby-eats-and-travels-in-style-on-campaign-and-pac-funds-but-doesnt-share/|access-date=June 16, 2015|newspaper=Washington Post|date=October 1, 2014|archive-date=March 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150323184019/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2014/10/01/sen-shelby-eats-and-travels-in-style-on-campaign-and-pac-funds-but-doesnt-share/|url-status=live}} The Wall Street Journal called him a "stingy lawmaker".{{cite news|author1=Allysia Finley|title=Stingy Republican Lawmakers|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/political-diary-stingy-republican-lawmakers-1411582646|access-date=June 16, 2015|work=Wall Street Journal|date=September 24, 2014|archive-date=June 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150617040810/http://www.wsj.com/articles/political-diary-stingy-republican-lawmakers-1411582646|url-status=live}}

In May 2011, Shelby was one of five Republicans to vote against a Republican bill expanding offshore oil and gas drilling in U.S. coastal waters and requiring the Interior Department to complete multiple offshore lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coasts of Virginia and Alaska.{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/05/18/senate.oil.drilling/index.html|title=Senate rejects GOP oil drilling plan|date=May 18, 2011|publisher=CNN|access-date=November 3, 2018|archive-date=November 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104050343/http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/05/18/senate.oil.drilling/index.html|url-status=live}}

In March 2015, Shelby announced the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee would "review proposals aimed at providing greater clarity in Fed decision-making and at reforming the composition of Federal Reserve System" and that he had asked for input from the original regional reserve bank presidents for the Federal Reserve.{{cite news|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/03/03/key-republican-lawmaker-calls-for-review-of-fed-structure/|title=Key Republican Lawmaker Calls for Review of Fed Structure|date=March 3, 2015|publisher=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=November 6, 2018|archive-date=November 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106132132/https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/03/03/key-republican-lawmaker-calls-for-review-of-fed-structure/|url-status=live}}

In March 2017, Shelby called Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch "an outstanding nominee” and said that Republicans should abolish the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees if Democrats blocked his appointment, arguing that that party used the "nuclear option" first.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/27/politics/orrin-hatch-neil-gorsuch-nuclear-option/index.html|title=Orrin Hatch to back nuclear option if needed to confirm Gorsuch|date=March 27, 2017|publisher=CNN|access-date=November 4, 2018|archive-date=November 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104170016/https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/27/politics/orrin-hatch-neil-gorsuch-nuclear-option/index.html|url-status=live}}

In December 2017, after Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley issued a statement requesting that the nomination of Brett Talley for federal judge in Alabama be withdrawn, a spokesman for Shelby said that Shelby considered Talley "a great young attorney" and had spoken with him the previous week while asking "for his letter of withdrawal in hopes that Mr. Talley can gain more experience."{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/12/politics/trump-judicial-picks/index.html|title=Exclusive: Grassley urges Trump to reconsider controversial judicial picks|date=December 12, 2017|publisher=CNN|access-date=November 4, 2018|archive-date=October 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004083242/https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/12/politics/trump-judicial-picks/index.html|url-status=live}}

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In August 2018, after Rand Paul proposed an amendment to tie a spending bill to the funding of Planned Parenthood, Shelby warned that the amendment could attract supporters while becoming a spoiler for a larger government spending bill.{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/402759-paul-seeks-to-cut-off-planned-parenthood-funds-via-massive-spending-bill|title=Paul seeks to cut off Planned Parenthood funds via massive spending bill|date=August 20, 2018|work=The Hill|access-date=September 28, 2018|archive-date=September 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928083007/https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/402759-paul-seeks-to-cut-off-planned-parenthood-funds-via-massive-spending-bill|url-status=live}}

In September 2018, Shelby reported that the House and Senate were close to a deal on a third package of spending bills for 2019. Representative Nita Lowey disputed the claim, saying that she did not believe a deal would be reached until after the House adjourned and a House Republican aide responded that there was no time to complete the package.{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/408601-shelby-deal-close-on-third-minibus-spending-package|title=Shelby: Deal close on third minibus spending package|date=September 26, 2018|work=The Hill|access-date=September 28, 2018|archive-date=September 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928083120/https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/408601-shelby-deal-close-on-third-minibus-spending-package|url-status=live}}

In November 2018, Shelby, Senators Mitch McConnell, and John Thune met with President Trump at the White House, Shelby stating after the meeting that he told Trump the Republicans should avoid a partial government shutdown over Trump's wishes for a border wall and that he was unsure whether Trump's position was affected by his comments.{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/417013-senior-gop-senator-warns-trump-against-partial-shutdown|title=Senior GOP senator warns Trump against partial shutdown|date=November 15, 2018|work=The Hill|access-date=November 21, 2018|archive-date=November 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122034053/https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/417013-senior-gop-senator-warns-trump-against-partial-shutdown|url-status=live}}

In February 2019, after Trump delivered the 2019 State of the Union Address, Shelby called it a reiteration of Trump's support for the U.S.-Mexico border wall and confirmed an interaction with House Appropriations Committee chair Nita Lowey, a leading Democratic negotiator.{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/428657-gop-negotiator-trump-didnt-move-the-needle-on-border-wall|title=GOP negotiator: Trump didn't move the needle on border wall|date=February 5, 2019|work=The Hill|access-date=February 22, 2019|archive-date=February 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223020323/https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/428657-gop-negotiator-trump-didnt-move-the-needle-on-border-wall|url-status=live}}

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In September 2020, with less than two months left in the presidential election, Shelby supported an immediate Senate vote on Trump's nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death. Yet in March 2016, Shelby refused to consider Obama's Supreme Court nominee, saying the "decision should be made after the upcoming presidential election so that the American people have a voice."{{cite news |last1=Desjardins |first1=Lisa |title=What every Republican senator has said about filling a Supreme Court vacancy in an election year |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-every-republican-senator-has-said-about-filling-a-supreme-court-vacancy-in-an-election-year |access-date=September 27, 2020 |work=PBS NewsHour |date=September 22, 2020 |archive-date=October 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031171254/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-every-republican-senator-has-said-about-filling-a-supreme-court-vacancy-in-an-election-year |url-status=live }}

During the January 6 United States Capitol attack, Shelby called for law and order via Twitter. When Congress reconvened to certify the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count, Shelby voted to accept the results of the election.{{cite news |last1=Walsh |first1=Lauren |title=Alabama lawmakers discuss Capitol riot, misinformation campaigns |url=https://abc3340.com/news/local/alabama-lawmakers-discuss-capitol-riot-misinformation-campaigns |access-date=January 8, 2021 |work=WBMA |date=January 7, 2021 |archive-date=January 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107235216/https://abc3340.com/news/local/alabama-lawmakers-discuss-capitol-riot-misinformation-campaigns |url-status=live }} On February 13, 2021, Shelby voted to acquit Trump of inciting the Capitol attack.{{cite news| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/senate-impeachment-whip-count-where-democrats-republicans-stand/| title = Live impeachment vote count: How senators voted to convict or acquit Trump - Washington Post| newspaper = The Washington Post| access-date = February 14, 2021| archive-date = February 14, 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210214024915/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/senate-impeachment-whip-count-where-democrats-republicans-stand/| url-status = live}}

In August 2021, Shelby prevented an attempt to limit cryptocurrency tax-reporting requirements in the Senate infrastructure bill.{{cite news |last1=Stein |first1=Jeff |title=Late effort to revamp cryptocurrency rules in infrastructure deal fails in Senate |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/08/09/senators-reach-agreement-revamp-cryptocurrency-rules-it-may-prove-too-late-change-bill/ |access-date=August 11, 2021 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=August 9, 2021 |archive-date=August 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210809232051/https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/08/09/senators-reach-agreement-revamp-cryptocurrency-rules-it-may-prove-too-late-change-bill/ |url-status=live }}

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• Senate Committee on Appropriations (ranking member){{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/richard_shelby/300089|title=Richard Shelby, Senator for Alabama|work=GovTrack.us|access-date=August 2, 2016|archive-date=November 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107033807/https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/richard_shelby/300089|url-status=live}}
• Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science
• Subcommittee on Defense (vice chair)
• Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
• Subcommittee on Homeland Security
• Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education & Related Agencies
• Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
• Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs (former chair)
• Senate Committee on Rules and Administration (former chair)
• Joint Committee of Congress on the Library[https://cha.house.gov/jointcommittees/joint-committee-library House Administration Committee website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704123136/https://cha.house.gov/jointcommittees/joint-committee-library |date=July 4, 2017 }} Retrieved November 21, 2017 (vice chair)

• Senate Republican Conference

Shelby has a lifetime ideology score of 77.43 from the politically conservative American Conservative Union's Center for Legislative Accountability.{{cite web|title=Sen. Richard C. Shelby|url=http://ratings.conservative.org/people/S000320|access-date=May 3, 2021|website=American Conservative Union Foundation Center for Legislative Accountability}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The politically liberal Americans for Democratic Action gave him a score of zero in their 2019 report.{{cite web|title=ADA Voting Records {{!}} Americans for Democratic Action|url=https://adaction.org/ada-voting-records/|access-date=2021-05-03|language=en-US|archive-date=April 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428210317/https://adaction.org/ada-voting-records/|url-status=live}}

Shelby opposes abortion and said on his Senate campaign website that Roe v. Wade is "terribly flawed on both a constitutional and moral basis." He also opposes taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and voted against a short-term funding bill in Congress because it did not defund Planned Parenthood.{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00272|title=Roll Call Vote 114th Congress - 1st Session|work=senate.gov|access-date=February 3, 2021|archive-date=March 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321145253/https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00272|url-status=live}} When Roe v. Wade was overturned in June 2022, Shelby called it "welcome news" and said, "It is our moral and ethical duty to protect the dignity of human life, particularly when it comes to the unborn."{{cite web |title=Shelby Responds to SCOTUS Ruling on Abortion |url=https://www.shelby.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/6/shelby-responds-to-scotus-ruling-on-abortion |website=United States Senator Richard Shelby |access-date=24 June 2022 |language=en}}

Both during the George W. Bush administration, in 2008, and the Obama administration, in 2009, Shelby was vocal in his opposition to bailing out banks and other corporations (such as AIG).{{cite web|url=http://www.wtvy.com/news/alabama/headlines/41310547.html|title=Senator Shelby assail bonuses paid to executives at AIG|work=wtvy.com|access-date=August 2, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005161204/http://www.wtvy.com/news/alabama/headlines/41310547.html|archive-date=October 5, 2015}}

In 2010, Shelby initially opposed the Republican Party's moratorium on earmark funding.{{cite news|last=Beasley|first=Jere|title=Senator Shelby doesn't like the Earmark Ban|url=http://www.jerebeasleyreport.com/2010/12/senator-shelby-doesnt-like-the-earmark-ban/|access-date=September 27, 2011|newspaper=Jere Beasley Report|date=December 16, 2010|archive-date=March 14, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110314201442/http://www.jerebeasleyreport.com/2010/12/senator-shelby-doesnt-like-the-earmark-ban/|url-status=live}} The same year, he voted to block three amendments to regulate banks, including an amendment #3812 to S. 3217 to cap ATM fees at $0.50 per transaction and to bar banks borrowing taxpayer money through TARP funds to use those funds for their own benefit.{{cite news |last=Grim |first=Ryan |title=Attempt To Cap ATM Fees At 50 Cents Blocked In Senate |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/18/attempt-to-cap-atm-fees-a_n_581168.html |date=May 18, 2010 |publisher=Huffington Post |access-date=May 19, 2010 |archive-date=May 20, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100520234749/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/18/attempt-to-cap-atm-fees-a_n_581168.html |url-status=live }}

In 2011, Shelby opposed the nomination of Nobel Economics Prize laureate and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Peter Diamond to the board of the Federal Reserve on the grounds that Diamond "lacked the necessary qualifications".[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/opinion/06diamond.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314212858/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/opinion/06diamond.html|date=March 14, 2017}} NY Times June 6, 2011 Since becoming Senate Banking chair, Shelby has made "regulatory relief and financial regulation reform his top priority".{{cite news|author1=Michael Flaherty|title=Senate Banking bill proposes several changes for Fed: source|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fed-legislation-idUSKBN0NX06520150512|access-date=June 17, 2015|work=Reuters|date=May 12, 2015|archive-date=March 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322171751/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-fed-legislation-idUSKBN0NX06520150512|url-status=live}} In May 2015, he revealed the so-called Shelby Bill, easing regulatory restrictions on smaller banks and increasing scrutiny of the Federal Reserve.

In May 2015, Shelby introduced legislation that if enacted would increase congressional scrutiny of the Federal Reserve and ease some regulatory burdens on multiple small banks and loosen oversight to banks such as U.S. Bancorp and SunTrust Banks enacted under the Dodd-Frank Act. In a written statement, he called the legislation "a working document intended to initiate a conversation with all members of the committee who are interested in reaching a bipartisan agreement to improve access to credit and to reduce the level of risk in our financial system."{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/05/12/Bill-would-increase-scrutiny-of-Federal-Reserve-ease-restrictions-on-small-banks/8431431447260/|title=Bill would increase scrutiny of Federal Reserve, ease restrictions on small banks|first=Amy R.|last=Connolly|date=May 12, 2015|publisher=UPI|access-date=November 6, 2018|archive-date=February 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212223007/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2015/05/12/Bill-would-increase-scrutiny-of-Federal-Reserve-ease-restrictions-on-small-banks/8431431447260/|url-status=live}}

Shelby voted to make English the sole language of the federal government.{{cite web|url=http://www.civilrights.org/monitor/vol8_no4/art3.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/|title=English-Only Initiatives Before The Congress|work=civilrights.org|access-date=August 2, 2016|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190916/http://www.civilrights.org/monitor/vol8_no4/art3.html?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F|url-status=live}}

He voted for the Federal Marriage Amendment.{{cite web|url=https://www.shelby.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/newsreleases?ContentRecord_id=D62B0A4A-3A3E-4FEE-9EC9-2967B3667D3C|title=Shelby Statement on Federal Marriage Amendment|work=senate.gov|access-date=August 2, 2016|archive-date=April 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426040730/http://www.shelby.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/newsreleases?ContentRecord_id=D62B0A4A-3A3E-4FEE-9EC9-2967B3667D3C|url-status=live}}

During the 115th Congress, Shelby received a 4% rating from the ACLU, as well as a 0% rating for the 116th Congress.{{Cite web|title=Legislative Scorecard for Richard C. Shelby|url=https://www.aclu.org/scorecard|access-date=January 18, 2021|website=American Civil Liberties Union|language=en|archive-date=January 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128013348/https://www.aclu.org/scorecard/|url-status=live}}

In 1993, Shelby, who was still a Democrat at the time, was one of six Democratic senators to vote against the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993.

In 1999, Shelby was one of ten Republican senators to vote to acquit President Bill Clinton on the charge of perjury when Clinton was tried in the Senate in 1999, but he voted to convict Clinton of obstruction of justice.{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/02/12/senate.vote/|title=How the senators voted on impeachment|date=February 12, 1999|work=cnn.com|access-date=August 2, 2016|archive-date=July 31, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731044658/http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/02/12/senate.vote/|url-status=live}}

In December 2002, Shelby said, "We don't need another nuclear power -- not with Iran sponsoring terrorism that it has in the past. The fact that they are seemingly pursuing an avenue to build nuclear weapons should be disturbing to everybody."{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/12/12/iran.nuclear/|title=U.S. has photos of secret Iran nuclear sites|first=David|last=Ensor|date=December 13, 2002|publisher=CNN|access-date=November 8, 2018|archive-date=September 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200915005404/http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/12/12/iran.nuclear/|url-status=live}}

In March 2015, Shelby was one of 47 Republican senators to sign a letter to Iran warning that a nuclear deal with the U.S. would have to first be approved by Congress.{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/10/politics/republican-senators-who-support-iran-letter/index.html|title=See list of Republican Senators who support Iran letter|date=March 10, 2015|publisher=CNN|access-date=November 8, 2018|archive-date=November 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109070653/https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/10/politics/republican-senators-who-support-iran-letter/index.html|url-status=live}} In July, he called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action "a bad deal" and questioned why the U.S. would support the agreement if Russia President Vladimir Putin favored it.{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/247956-the-hills-whip-list-senators-take-sides-on-iran-deal|title=The Hill's Whip List: Obama has 42 Senate votes for Iran deal|date=July 14, 2015|work=The Hill|access-date=November 8, 2018|archive-date=November 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109070740/https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/247956-the-hills-whip-list-senators-take-sides-on-iran-deal|url-status=live}}

In September 2016, Shelby was one of 34 senators to sign a letter to United States Secretary of State John Kerry advocating that the U.S. use "all available tools to dissuade Russia from continuing its airstrikes in Syria" from an Iranian airbase near Hamadan "that are clearly not in our interest" and stating that the US should enforce the airstrikes' violation of "a legally binding Security Council Resolution" on Iran.{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/policy/defense/296603-gop-pressures-kerry-on-russias-use-of-iranian-airbase|title=GOP pressures Kerry on Russia's use of Iranian airbase|date=September 19, 2016|first=Rebecca|last=Kheel|work=The Hill|access-date=February 11, 2019|archive-date=July 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728224026/https://thehill.com/policy/defense/296603-gop-pressures-kerry-on-russias-use-of-iranian-airbase|url-status=live}}

In December 2010, Shelby was one of 26 senators to vote against the ratification of New Start,{{cite web |author=Mark Memmott |url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/12/22/132262684/senate-ratifies-start |title=Senate Ratifies START |publisher=npr.org |date=December 22, 2010 |access-date=December 22, 2010 |archive-date=March 31, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150331202810/http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/12/22/132262684/senate-ratifies-start |url-status=live }} a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the U.S. and the Russian Federation obliging both countries to have no more than 1,550 strategic warheads as well as 700 launchers deployed during the next seven years along with providing a continuation of on-site inspections that halted when START I expired the previous year. It was the first arms treaty with Russia in eight years.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/world/europe/23treaty.html|title=Senate Passes Arms Control Treaty With Russia, 71-26|first=Peter|last=Baker|work=The New York Times|date=December 22, 2010|access-date=February 21, 2019|archive-date=December 29, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229151646/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/world/europe/23treaty.html|url-status=live}} In January 2021, Shelby voted for Senate measure S.3436, which would impose sanctions on operators of the Nord Stream pipeline. Democrats blocked the measure.

In March 2018, Shelby voted to table a resolution spearheaded by Bernie Sanders, Chris Murphy, and Mike Lee that would have required Trump to withdraw American troops either in or influencing Yemen in the next 30 days unless they were combating Al-Qaeda.{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/379392-senate-sides-with-trump-on-providing-saudi-military-support|title=Senate sides with Trump on providing Saudi military support|date=March 20, 2018|work=The Hill|access-date=February 22, 2019|archive-date=February 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228031125/https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/379392-senate-sides-with-trump-on-providing-saudi-military-support|url-status=live}}

Shelby has an A+ rating from the NRA Political Victory Fund for his support of gun rights.{{cite web |title=NRA-PVF Endorses Richard Shelby for U.S. Senate |url=https://www.nrapvf.org/articles/20100910/nra-pvf-endorses-richard-shelby-for-us-senate |website=nrapvf.org |publisher=NRA-PVF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812193336/https://www.nrapvf.org/articles/20100910/nra-pvf-endorses-richard-shelby-for-us-senate |archive-date=August 12, 2014 |language=en-US |url-status=live}}{{cite web|last1=Bloch|first1=Matthew|last2=Fairfield|first2=Hannah|last3=Harris|first3=Jacob|last4=Keller|first4=Josh|last5=reporting|first5=Derek Willis/The New York Times Kitty Bennett contributed|title=How the National Rifle Association Rates Lawmakers|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/19/us/politics/nra.html|website=The New York Times|access-date=October 4, 2017|date=December 19, 2012|archive-date=October 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171004091442/http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/19/us/politics/nra.html|url-status=live}} In 2016, he voted against the Feinstein Amendment, which sought to stop the sale of firearms to people known or suspected to be terrorists. Asked by Scott Wapner why he voted against it, Shelby said, "I do believe that we should keep guns out of the hands of terrorists, would-be terrorists, and a lot of other people."{{cite web|last1=Levingston|first1=Ivan|title=A heated Shelby defends gun vote, also questions Fed credibility|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/21/a-heated-shelby-defends-gun-vote-also-questions-fed-credibility.html|website=CNBC|access-date=October 4, 2017|date=June 21, 2016|archive-date=October 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171004085338/https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/21/a-heated-shelby-defends-gun-vote-also-questions-fed-credibility.html|url-status=live}}

In January 2019, Shelby was one of 31 Republican senators to cosponsor the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, a bill introduced by John Cornyn and Ted Cruz that would grant individuals with concealed carry privileges in their home state the right to exercise this right in any other state with concealed carry laws while concurrently abiding by that state’s laws.{{cite news|url=https://www.kcbd.com/2019/01/10/sens-cruz-cornyn-file-concealed-carry-reciprocity-bill/|title=Sens. Cruz, Cornyn file Concealed-Carry Reciprocity Bill|date=January 10, 2019|publisher=kcbd.com|access-date=July 16, 2019|archive-date=July 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716191543/https://www.kcbd.com/2019/01/10/sens-cruz-cornyn-file-concealed-carry-reciprocity-bill/|url-status=live}}

Shelby opposed Obama's health reform legislation, voting against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in December 2009{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00396|title=U.S. Senate: Roll Call Vote|work=senate.gov|access-date=August 2, 2016|archive-date=July 18, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718202033/https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00396|url-status=live}} and against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.{{cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00105 |title=U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home > Votes > Roll Call Vote |publisher=Senate.gov |access-date=August 29, 2010 |archive-date=August 4, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100804082122/https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00105 |url-status=live }}

In August 2009, Shelby opined that the United States had "the best health care system in the world" and cited the need to expand the system without destroying it.{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/16/us.healthcare/ |title=Democratic senator: Public health insurance option dead |date=August 16, 2009 |publisher=CNN |access-date=November 4, 2018 |archive-date=November 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104170006/http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/16/us.healthcare/ |url-status=live }}

After Senator Ted Cruz's 21-hour speech opposing the Affordable Care Act, Shelby joined Cruz and 17 other senators in a failed vote against cloture on a comprehensive government funding bill that would also have continued funding healthcare reform.{{cite news |url=http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/ted-cruz-government-shutdown-republicans-97466.html |title=Twenty-five Republicans buck Cruz on shutdown |publisher=Politico.com |date=September 27, 2013 |access-date=October 10, 2013 |archive-date=September 30, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930200550/http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/ted-cruz-government-shutdown-republicans-97466.html |url-status=live }}

In September 2017, after the Senate reached an agreement during a lunch not to vote on a Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act that week, Shelby said, "Why have a vote if you know what the outcome is and it's not what you want? I don't know what you gain from that. But I do believe that the health care issue is not dead, and that's what counts."{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/26/obamacare-repeal-failure-republican-senate-243148|title=Senate won't vote on last-ditch Obamacare repeal bill|date=September 26, 2017|publisher=Politico|access-date=November 3, 2018|archive-date=November 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181103192707/https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/26/obamacare-repeal-failure-republican-senate-243148|url-status=live}}

Shelby voted for a 1994 moratorium on certain forms of immigration.{{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/senate-bill/160|title=S. 160 - Immigration Moratorium Act of 1994|last=Shelby|first=Richard|date=January 5, 1995|access-date=November 23, 2019|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806161811/https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/senate-bill/160|url-status=live}}

Shelby has supported development of the Space Launch System (SLS), but disagreed with how funds for the program have been spent.{{cite news|last=Morring|first=Frank|title=Senators Disagree On SLS Approach|url=http://web02.aviationweek.com/aw/mstory.do?id=news/awst/2011/08/22/AW_08_22_2011_p29-360621.xml&channel=space&headline=Senators%20Disagree%20On%20SLS%20Approach|access-date=September 27, 2011|newspaper=Aviation Week and Space Technology|date=August 25, 2011|archive-date=April 5, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405045841/http://web02.aviationweek.com/aw/mstory.do?id=news%2Fawst%2F2011%2F08%2F22%2FAW_08_22_2011_p29-360621.xml&channel=space&headline=Senators%20Disagree%20On%20SLS%20Approach|url-status=live}} In 2011 he favored competition for the strap-on booster design.{{cite web|last=Shelby|first=Richard|title=Letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden|date=July 10, 2011 |url=http://www.competitivespace.org/papers/20110610_Shelby_SLS_Booster_Letter.pdf|access-date=September 28, 2011|archive-date=September 15, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110915222006/http://www.competitivespace.org/papers/20110610_Shelby_SLS_Booster_Letter.pdf|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=A (partial) SLS competition in the works?|url=http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/06/17/a-partial-sls-competition-in-the-works/|work=Space Politics|access-date=September 28, 2011|archive-date=August 26, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826033843/http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/06/17/a-partial-sls-competition-in-the-works/|url-status=live}} The SLS earmark has been opposed by fiscal conservative groups, including the Tea Party.{{cite web|last=Wilkinson|first=Everett|title=TEA Party Catches Congress Hiding Earmark In Space|url=http://teapartywire.com/blog/2011/05/15/press-release-tea-party-catches-congress-hiding-earmark-in-space/|publisher=Tea Party Wire|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920062352/http://teapartywire.com/blog/2011/05/15/press-release-tea-party-catches-congress-hiding-earmark-in-space/|archive-date=September 20, 2011}}{{cite web|last=Gasser|first=Andrew|title=Are Republican Senators Trying to Kill NASA?|url=http://www.teainspace.com/are-republican-senators-trying-to-kill-nasa/|publisher=Tea Party in Space|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111014072959/http://www.teainspace.com/are-republican-senators-trying-to-kill-nasa/|archive-date=October 14, 2011}}{{cite web|last=Simberg|first=Rand|title=Blame Congress and Pork, Not NASA|date=September 23, 2011 |url=http://www.openmarket.org/2011/09/23/blame-congress-and-pork-not-nasa/|access-date=September 27, 2011|archive-date=September 26, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926042531/http://www.openmarket.org/2011/09/23/blame-congress-and-pork-not-nasa/|url-status=live}}

Shelby supports a flat tax and supported the Bush Administration's tax cuts.{{cite web|url=https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/53266/richard-shelby/111/taxes?p=2#.VhIFzvlViko|title=The Voter's Self Defense System|work=votesmart.org|access-date=August 2, 2016|archive-date=April 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404142148/https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/53266/richard-shelby/111/taxes?p=2#.VhIFzvlViko|url-status=live}} He cites disagreements with Democrats on tax policy as one of the main reasons he became a Republican; he feels the Democrats are too willing to enact tax increases.{{cite web|url=http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/11/from_boll_weevil_to_gop_stalwa.html|title=Boll Weevil to GOP: 20 years of Sen. Richard Shelby as a Republican in today's political update|work=al.com|date=November 12, 2014|access-date=August 2, 2016|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304222953/http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/11/from_boll_weevil_to_gop_stalwa.html|url-status=live}}

Shelby is a signer of Americans for Tax Reform's Taxpayer Protection Pledge.{{cite web|title=The Taxpayer Protection Pledge Signers 112th Congressional List|url=http://s3.amazonaws.com/atrfiles/files/files/091411-federalpledgesigners.pdf|publisher=Americans for Tax Reform|access-date=November 30, 2011|archive-date=January 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107102835/http://s3.amazonaws.com/atrfiles/files/files/091411-federalpledgesigners.pdf|url-status=live}}

During the first impeachment trial of Donald Trump, Shelby opposed the introduction of new witnesses{{cite web |title=Shelby Statement on Impeachment Witness Vote |url=https://www.shelby.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/newsreleases?ID=5193ADF8-C9F9-488B-B5B4-5EB143B7191F |website=United States Senator Richard Shelby |access-date=February 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209004534/https://www.shelby.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/newsreleases?ID=5193ADF8-C9F9-488B-B5B4-5EB143B7191F |archive-date=February 9, 2020 |language=en}} and voted to acquit.{{cite web |title=Shelby: Senate Votes to Acquit President Trump |url=https://www.shelby.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2020/2/shelby-statement-on-acquittal-of-president-trump |website=United States Senator Richard Shelby |access-date=February 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209003953/https://www.shelby.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2020/2/shelby-statement-on-acquittal-of-president-trump |archive-date=February 9, 2020 |language=en}}

During the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, Shelby voted to acquit based on his belief that impeachment does not apply to former officials.{{cite web|title=Shelby Statement on Conclusion of Impeachment Trial|url=https://www.shelby.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/2/shelby-statement-on-conclusion-of-impeachment-trial|access-date=July 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421043814/https://www.shelby.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/2/shelby-statement-on-conclusion-of-impeachment-trial|website=United States Senator Richard Shelby|archive-date=April 21, 2021|language=en}}

On May 28, 2021, Shelby abstained from voting on the creation of an independent commission to investigate the 2021 United States Capitol attack.{{cite news |newspaper=Washington Post |date=May 28, 2021 |title=Which senators supported a Jan. 6 Capitol riot commission |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/january6-commission-senators-vote/ |access-date=May 29, 2021 |archive-date=May 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526225939/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/january6-commission-senators-vote/ |url-status=live }}

• The Shelby Hall Research Center at the University of Alabama is named for Shelby and his wife, a professor emerita at the university. The {{convert|200000|sqft|m2}} new center opened in 2007 and combines mathematics, chemistry and biology research in one building.{{cite web|url=http://tour.ua.edu/tourstops/shelby.html|title=The University of Alabama|work=ua.edu|access-date=August 2, 2016|archive-date=August 14, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150814052817/http://tour.ua.edu/tourstops/shelby.html|url-status=live}}
• The Richard C. and Annette N. Shelby Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building at the University of Alabama at Birmingham opened in April 2006. The 12-story building cost $70 million and is {{convert|310000|sqft|m2}}.{{cite web|url=http://pkallsc.org/directory/senator-richard-shelby-interdisciplinary-biomedical-research-institute|title=Senator Richard Shelby Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Institute – Learning Spaces Collaboratory|work=pkallsc.org|access-date=August 2, 2016|archive-date=July 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701222523/http://www.pkallsc.org/directory/senator-richard-shelby-interdisciplinary-biomedical-research-institute|url-status=live}}
• The Senator Richard C. and Dr. Annette N. Shelby Center for Engineering Technology, part of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University, was dedicated on April 18, 2008. Shelby helped secure $30 million of the $54 million cost of Phase I of the project.{{cite news| title = New Auburn University tech center dedicated to U.S. Sen. Richard C. and Dr. Annette N. Shelby| work = The Birmingham News| url = http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2008/04/new_auburn_university_tech_cen.html| date = April 24, 2008| access-date = April 24, 2008| archive-date = September 30, 2011| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110930162534/http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2008/04/new_auburn_university_tech_cen.html| url-status = live}}
• In Mobile, Shelby Hall houses the University of South Alabama College of Engineering and School of Computer and Information Sciences. The {{convert|155000|sqft|m2}} facility was named after Richard and Annette Shelby for their commitment to higher education in Alabama. Senator Shelby was instrumental for securing $40 million in federal grants to fund the $50 million project.{{cite news|last=Busby|first=Renee|title=USA dedicates new Shelby Hall building on campus|url=http://blog.al.com/live/2012/09/usa_dedicates_new_shelby_hall.html|access-date=February 28, 2013|newspaper=Press-Register|date=September 9, 2012|archive-date=November 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121118021650/http://blog.al.com/live/2012/09/usa_dedicates_new_shelby_hall.html|url-status=live}} The building was dedicated on September 9, 2012.{{cite web|title=Shelby Hall Dedication|url=http://www.southalabama.edu/usa50/shelbyhallinvite.pdf|publisher=University of South Alabama|access-date=February 28, 2013|archive-date=January 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118215644/http://www.southalabama.edu/usa50/shelbyhallinvite.pdf|url-status=live}}
• The 207,000-square-foot Shelby Center for Science and Technology was dedicated at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in October 2007.{{cite web|url=http://aehof.eng.ua.edu/members/shelby-engineering-centers/|title=Shelby Engineering Centers – State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame|work=ua.edu|access-date=August 2, 2016|archive-date=August 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816161228/http://aehof.eng.ua.edu/members/shelby-engineering-centers/|url-status=live}} It includes 18 teaching laboratories, 13 classrooms, 15 research laboratories, two teaching auditoriums, and 146 offices.{{cite web|url=http://www.mdmechanical.com/projects/institutional/item/uah-shelby-center|title=UAH Shelby Center for Science & Technology|first=Joomla!|last=Administrator|work=mdmechanical.com|access-date=August 2, 2016|archive-date=September 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919071838/http://www.mdmechanical.com/projects/institutional/item/uah-shelby-center|url-status=live}}
• The Richard C. Shelby Atrium and Auditorium at Dauphin Island Sea Lab, a state-of-the-art video conferencing center, the first of its kind along the Gulf Coast, has earned the distinguished LEEDS certification for the reduction of negative environmental impact in construction practices and materials.{{cite web|url=https://www.disl.edu/special-events|access-date=November 3, 2020|title=Special Events | Dauphin Island Sea Lab|archive-date=October 31, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031113747/https://www.disl.edu/special-events/|url-status=live}}
• The Richard C. Shelby Center for Missile Intelligence serves as the headquarters of the Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC), a component of the Defense Intelligence Agency in Huntsville, Alabama.{{cite web |url=https://www.dia.mil/About/Organization/MSIC/#strongshelby-centerstrong |title=Shelby Center |website=dia.mil |publisher=Defense Intelligence Agency |access-date=July 8, 2021 |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184635/https://www.dia.mil/About/Organization/MSIC/#strongshelby-centerstrong |url-status=live }} Shelby has supported MSIC in the past.{{cite news |last1=Gore |first1=Leada |title=How a Redstone Arsenal intelligence agency may help U.S. determine what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 |url=https://www.al.com/news/2014/07/how_a_redstone_arsenal_intelli.html |access-date=7 October 2021 |work=al |date=22 July 2014 |language=en |archive-date=October 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211007185613/https://www.al.com/news/2014/07/how_a_redstone_arsenal_intelli.html |url-status=live }}
• Shelby Field, an airport in Abbeville{{cite web |author=WTVY Staff |title=Grand Opening: Abbeville Airport celebrates former Senator Shelby with new name |website=WSFA |date=2024-12-13 |url=https://www.wsfa.com/2024/12/13/grand-opening-abbeville-airport-celebrates-former-senator-shelby-with-new-name/ |access-date=2024-12-14}}

Shelby has been married to Annette Nevin Shelby for over 60 years; the couple have two sons, Richard Jr. and Claude.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wtvy.com/2021/02/08/sen-shelby-announces-he-will-not-run-for-reelection/|title=Sen. Shelby announces he will not run for reelection|work=WTVY|date=February 8, 2021|accessdate=March 18, 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.andalusiastarnews.com/2015/02/21/mrs-shelby-livens-up-senators-visit/|title=Mrs. Shelby livens up senator's visit|last=Gerlach|first=Michele|work=Andalusia Star News|date=February 21, 2015|accessdate=March 18, 2022}} As of 2018, according to OpenSecrets.org, Shelby's net worth was more than $19 million.{{cite web |title=Richard C. Shelby - Net Worth - Personal Finances |url=https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/richard-shelby/net-worth?cid=N00009920 |website=OpenSecrets.org |access-date=15 October 2021 |archive-date=October 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211015211552/https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/richard-shelby/net-worth?cid=N00009920 |url-status=live }}

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