Jim Inhofe: “first of all, let me comment that these things do not come without a cost. I am putting up some things that will happen…”

“first of all, let me comment that these things do not come without a cost. I am putting up some things that will happen in the State of Vermont. But I would also say this: It is so tempting to debate when he talks about the science here because the science is not settled. But I stated--and I do not think the Senator from Vermont was on the floor when I opened the discussion yesterday, I guess it was--that for the purpose of this bill, so that there will not be Members coming down who do not want to talk about the bill and instead want to talk about the science, I said as far as the bill is concerned, let's assume the science is there so we do not have to put that on the table and use up the time. So that is what we have been doing. I hope we will be able to continue to do that. However, tomorrow, after the locked-in vote on the budget, I believe we are going to be going, hopefully, to some of these amendments which I think are very significant. Now, I had by unanimous consent asked to have, I think, locked in 30 minutes. I do not need that much time. I would like to repeat a couple of things. I understand Senator Enzi is coming back to the floor. One of the things I think he stated earlier when he was speaking was something that somehow people have forgotten; that is, there can be no debate over whether jobs are going to be lost. Jobs have to be lost because we are talking about putting a cap on oil and gas, putting a cap on our energy supply.…”