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Jim Inhofe
@jiminhofe· Republican · OK· Jul 6, 2016

Vieques provides integrated live-fire training critical to our readiness, and the failure to provide for live--for adequate live-fire training for our naval forces for forward deployment will place these forces in an…

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Jim Inhofe
@jiminhofe· Republican · OK· Jul 6, 2016

it's hard for me to believe that it's been 16 years since we fought, and lost, the battle of Vieques.

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Jim Inhofe
@jiminhofe· Republican · OK· Jul 6, 2016

I want to compliment you on the very strong language you used in your opening statement concerning what has happened over in the Ukraine.

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Jim Inhofe
@jiminhofe· Republican · OK· Jul 6, 2016

I think President Obama has been right to insist on those sanctions.

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Jim Inhofe
@jiminhofe· Republican · OK· Jul 6, 2016

I think it needs some shoring up, frankly.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jul 5, 2016

That will help us. We want to get a look at some of those analytics and see how things are evaluated so we can also participate just in that conversation, just as good stewards with it.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jul 5, 2016

So a way to be able to guess at this point for the FBI, cases like Mohamed Jalloh, that have happened in the past year where the FBI learns about this individual, self-radicalized online, preparing to actually carry out an attack, and then…

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jul 5, 2016

So tell me the process of how you evaluated, for instance, that site, other sites, things that were internal, to make the decision we are going to turn this off and not do this, we are going to turn in a different direction?

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Markwayne Mullin
@markwaynemullin· Republican · OK· Jul 5, 2016

This is from you guys. EPA's estimate of compliance cost--EPA's--these are yours--so this isn't my number. This isn't the majority's number. These are your numbers.

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Markwayne Mullin
@markwaynemullin· Republican · OK· Jul 5, 2016

No, no, no, no. Who is going to pay the $28 billion? Let us just round it up to $29 billion because you guys usually underestimate because you want to try and make your numbers look good.

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Markwayne Mullin
@markwaynemullin· Republican · OK· Jul 5, 2016

So out of those Clean Power Plans, there are several regulations specifically to the power plants and by fully implementing all of those out of 16 rules it's going to cost the industry--now, this is where you are saying it's going to lower…

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jul 5, 2016

Why? Because that had to be a metric-driven piece, too, that helps us understand how things were evaluated.

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Markwayne Mullin
@markwaynemullin· Republican · OK· Jul 5, 2016

I have lost a tremendous amount of respect for the EPA and what their mission statement has turned into.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 29, 2016

Because I am not asking, did they make the right decision? I am asking, did they do the process, and should there be an ability to have judicial review if they did not complete the process?

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 29, 2016

I think Members from both sides of the aisle could agree on this.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 29, 2016

what are we going to do to actually get to the point where we feel comfortable here that guidance is not used as a shortcut to reinvent or to restate current regulation in a way that is inconsistent with either the law or inconsistent with…

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Jun 29, 2016

Thank you. You may be seated. Let the record reflect all the witnesses answered in the affirmative.

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