[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 189 (Tuesday, December 6, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S6985]
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                       Tribute to Richard Shelby

  Senator Shelby is a gifted legislator and a southern gentleman whose 
impact on this Nation will not soon be forgotten. His colleagues and 
constituents know him for his long record of championing economic 
development and as a champion in the House of Representatives and in 
the Senate for our military, as leader of the Appropriations Committee 
here in the Senate.
  Richard Shelby is the quintessential problem-solver. He has always 
known how to sit down, negotiate, and get a result, and I wish him the 
best in this final month of his career in once again getting a result.
  Indeed, the jobs created through Richard Shelby's legislation and 
committee work number in the hundreds of thousands--the hundreds of 
thousands of jobs.
  So it is no surprise that there are now monuments to Richard Shelby's 
leadership all over Alabama and the entire Nation. As his next door 
neighbors across the State line, we Mississippians have directly 
benefited from his leadership.
  So I wish him and his wife Annette well as they begin the next 
chapter.