Senator Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee seen here in 2009, has taken the extraordinary step of blocking more than 70 of US President Barack Obama's nominees amid a dispute over a lucrative US Air Force tanker deal, senate aides said Friday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Win Mcnamee)AP - Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama has released the "holds" he had placed on every one of President Barack Obama's nominees, his office said Monday.


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