Jim Inhofe: “before the Senator from Texas leaves the floor, I want to acknowledge that in Oklahoma, last Sunday, I was with a group…”

“before the Senator from Texas leaves the floor, I want to acknowledge that in Oklahoma, last Sunday, I was with a group of people, and, independent of each other, they asked the same question: Where is America, and what is happening over there right now? Our best friend and most loyal ally in that part of the world, Israel, is being hit by terrorists, and we are sitting back and not doing anything. It is just not thinkable that that could happen. I think one of the most meaningful things that I had not heard before, stated this way, that the Senator from Texas stated was, if Hamas were to stop the attacks on Israel, Israel would do nothing, but if Israel were to stop responding, there would be no Israel left. That is the situation we have there. It is something that is not understandable. It is something that we are going to do everything we can to reverse. That is not why I am here on the floor, but I just wanted to mention that S. 1260 Mr. President, on this legislation that we are working on right now, we have an amendment. Senator Shelby and I, jointly, have an amendment. Now, we did this initially because I chaired the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Appropriations Committee, and it is an agreement that we had 10 years ago. We agreed on parity, that anything that we do that is going to be defense-related is going to be equaled by nondefense.…”