Jim Inhofe: “We have slain a large dragon. But we live now in a jungle filled with a bewildering variety of poisonous snakes.”

Senators Vitter, Crapo, Alexander, and I sent a letter to Senator Lautenberg yesterday expressing our disappointment that Republicans' sincere effort to work on a bipartisan TSCA reform had been rebuffed.

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.

I think John Thune did a good job of explaining what a cow tax would do and who that would affect.

I want to thank Mr. Johnson for his comments. It has been a mission of love all these years.