HR 464 Summary

• Commends Senator Richard Shelby for 30 years of outstanding service in the United States Senate representing Alabama
• Senator Shelby first entered public office in 1970 with election to the Alabama State Senate, was elected to the U.S. House in 1978, and to the U.S. Senate in 1986
• Senator Shelby has been reelected to the Senate in 1992, 1998, 2004, 2010, and 2016, becoming the sixth most senior Senator and fifth most senior Republican member
• Currently serves as Chair of the Rules Committee and as a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; previously chaired the Banking Committee and Intelligence Committee
• Recognized for securing numerous funding projects to improve Alabama's infrastructure, university system, and aerospace industry, and for his consistently conservative voting record