Jim Inhofe: “Our oceans are a precious resource, and we should take appropriate steps to ensure they are protected.”

a free-market approach to conservation. These areas can be developed, but Federal taxpayers do not underwrite the investments.

I think it needs to be said over and over again by knowledgeable people, such as we have here today, on this overspending, overregulation, the damage that is being done.

I really believe that we have an opportunity to yield to the pressures that are out there on overregulation.

In April, inflation was up 8.3 percent, and the average American family is spending an extra $569 every month just to buy basic necessities.