“We continue on a daily basis very successfully to degrade Iran’s ability to target ships.”
“We cannot afford to leave Tennessee behind.”
“We did a pause to try to get an agreement with the Iranian people to allow oil to flow without them attacking it.”
“One of the mistakes which some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies.”
“The only reason why the U.S. is conducting strikes is against assets of Iran that are being used to attack global commercial shipping.”
“We cannot afford to leave Kentucky behind, Alabama behind, Mississippi behind, Georgia behind, South Carolina behind.”

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On the recordNovember 29, 2017
But to me, I think we ought to, just in my narrow view, what we need to be talking about right now is what happened last Tuesday.
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Jim Inhofe
Republican · Oklahoma
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Editor's note · Context

Inhofe suggests discussing recent events as a priority in the meeting.

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