James Inhofe actually said...

"you just can't tell me that maintaining unused, vacant Federal properties at $25 million a year is more important than reauthorizing a highway bill."

"the main thing we are supposed to be doing here is defense and infrastructure."

"My concern is that it's being budget-driven as opposed to risk-driven."

"However, setting it up so that they don't have control over their own assets comes back to haunt us, I feel, quite often."