I come to the floor this morning to urge an affirmative vote for Senator Inhofe's resolution. With all due respect to my friend from Vermont, this is not a job-creating bill. Virtually everyone who has looked at that has said this will…

We have changed that and gotten it to where the legislature has full control. This has to change. Congress has to take back its ability to handle the law as it is imposed and the burden that is imposed on the American people. I yield the…

Thank you so much. You guys have been doing all you can to make us elephants extinct, that I thought I should come up.

I do have a serious question. You mentioned the rule of law and strong governance as being helpful, maybe even critical in controlling the illegal trade.

the language in this treaty that worries us is particularly that that deals with environmental issues and the ability of this Convention to enforce that with signatories of the treaty.

we are by far the largest emitters of carbon, and that is an issue around the world.

I have some deep-seated reservations on that basis.

I find very little comfort in taking this seat, as Secretary Panetta talks about, in a group of 160 countries, most of whom don't like us, many of whom hate us.

Nothing wrong with that.

You are going to find a gaggle of judges tripping over each other to force the EPA ... to say you shall.

I don't believe that it might. I believe it will.

I couldn't agree with you more that the language is black and white.