Jim Inhofe: “I have to say this. I am going to take the statement that was made by Senator Carper.”

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.

there is this old document that no one reads anymore called the Constitution, and I think some of my colleagues should give it another read today. The Constitution tells us what Congress is supposed to be doing here in DC, and that is…

There is no state that is more dependent upon the issues that are brought in this Committee hearing, and this is the reason I got on it in the first place.