Jim Inhofe: “That is kind of interesting because I have probably talked on this subject over the last 7 years for 200 or 300 hours…”

“That is kind of interesting because I have probably talked on this subject over the last 7 years for 200 or 300 hours, and I never had any trouble before getting time. It lets you know there is an awakening in the people who are looking at this particular vote that we are going to have today. Many of them believe in their hearts that anthropogenic gases cause global warming. I do not believe that. And there is everyone in between. The point is not that. It is, do we really want to have this bureaucracy? Let me just comment. I was here when my good friend, Senator Boxer, was making her comments. That was very interesting because she spent three-fourths of her time talking about the oilspill. Let me say, there is no relationship between this and the oilspill. There is no reason to talk about them in the same speech. When they talk about big oil--as she said, 'big oil has all this control'--well, big oil is BP. The last I checked, BP is very much involved with the majority, with the White House. In fact, I went and checked. I found out in my last Senate race, I was given $2,000 by BP. And I checked, in the last Senate race, which was the first Senate race by then-Senator Obama, he got three times as much money as I did. Now we find out that during the Kerry-Lieberman bill that has been talked about quite a bit, BP has been behind closed doors with them. Everybody knows this. Now, it is not big oil behind this bill.…”