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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 11: Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) (C) boards an elevator with Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) (2nd L) and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) (R) outside the Senate floor after voting against President Barak Obama's America Jobs Act October 11, 2011 in Washington, DC. The bill...

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WASHINGTON - JUNE 30: Committee ranking member Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) (R) speaks as Chairman Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) (L) and Outgoing Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Chairman Sheila Bair (C) listen during a hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs...

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. , followed by Richard Shelby, R-Ala. , Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. , and others, arrives to make a statement after a Republican policy luncheon, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 09: Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee ranking member Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) questions a witness during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill June 9, 2011 in Washington, DC. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate...

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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 10: Chairman Tim Johnson (D-SD) (C), Sen Jack Reed (D-RI)(L) and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)(R) participate in a Senate Banking Committee hearing, May 10, 2011 in Washington, DC. The committee is hearing testimony on the final report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry...

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President Barack Obama tours tornado damage with Tuscaloosa, Ala. Mayor Walter Maddox, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, third from left, Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala. , left, and others, Friday, April 29, 2011, Tuscaloosa, Ala.

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U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) (L) and Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) (R) begin a Senate Banking Committee hearing about the Financial Stability Oversight Council, on Capitol Hill in Washington October 6, 2011.

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Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D. , left, confers with the committee's ranking member, Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala. , on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011, as they listen to testimony by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on how the European debt...

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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (C) shakes hands with US Senator Dick Durbin (L), Democrat from Illinois while other senators (R-L) Harry Reid, Democrat from Nevada; US ambassador to China Jon Huntsman; Richard Shelby, Republican from Alabama and Barbara Boxer, Democrat from...

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(R-L) US Senator Harry Reid, Democrat from Nevada, US ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, Richard Shelby, Republican from Alabama, Barbara Boxer, Democrat from California and Dick Durbin, Democrat from Illinois, wait at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on April 21, 2011. A...

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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 17: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)(R), speaks while flanked by Chairman Tim Johnson (D-SD)(L), during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, on March 17, 2011 in Washington, DC. The committee is hearing testimony on oversight of the Troubled...

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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 17: Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program Neil Barofsky (L) shakes hands with Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)(R), during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, on March 17, 2011 in Washington, DC. The committee is...

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WASHINGTON - MARCH 1: Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) (L), Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) (2L), Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (2R) and Committee Ranking Member Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) arrive a hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill March...

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Sen. Tim Johnson (L) (D-SD), Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee; and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Al) arrive at the hearing on Enhanced Oversight After the Financial Crisis: The Wall Street Reform Act at One Year on Capitol Hill in...

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Sheila Bair (R) greets committee chairman Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) (L) and ranking member Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) (C) as she arrives to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 30, 2011. Bair...

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. , makes a statement on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, after a Republican policy luncheon. From left are, Sen. Lamar Alexander, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. , Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind. , McConnell, and Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.

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Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, center, talks with Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. , left, and Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala. , in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2011, before President Barack Obama spoke at a ceremony honoring the 2010 NCAA BCS...

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Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs greets Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala. in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 8, 2011, prior to President Barack Obama honoring the 2010 NCAA BCS Football Champion Auburn Tigers. Sen. Jeff Session, R-Ala. is at left.

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Committee Chairman Tim Johnson (D-SD) (L) and Ranking Member Richard Shelby (R-AL) preside over a Senate Banking Committee hearing on oversight of Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform and consumer protection implementation, on Capitol Hill in Washington May 12, 2011.

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BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 21: From right U.S Senator Harry Reid, Democrat from Nevada; U.S. ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman; Richard Shelby, Republican from Alabama; Barbara Boxer, Democrat from California and Dick Durbin, Democrat from Illinois waits at the Great Hall of the People on...

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BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 21: Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping at center shakes hand with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, Democrat from Illinois at left while other senators from right Harry Reid, Democrat from Nevada; U.S. ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman; Richard Shelby, Republican from...

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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, center, shakes hand with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, Democrat from Illinois. left, while other senators from right Harry Reid, Democrat from Nevada; U.S. ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman, Richard Shelby, Republican from Alabama and Barbara Boxer,...

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(R-L) U.S Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), U.S. ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, Richard Shelby (R-AL), Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) wait at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing April 21, 2011. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Thursday lauded the departing U.S....

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Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D. , left, and the committee's ranking Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala. , listen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 1, 2011, as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress...

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The President of the Aerospace Industries Association Marion Blakey, center, with US Secretary of Transportation Ray Lahood, third from left, attend the ribbon cutting ceremony of the US pavillion, on the first day of the Paris air show, at the Bourget airport, Monday June 20, 2011. ...