Jim Inhofe

We have a President who is against fossil fuels, coal, oil, and gas, and yet that is accountable for 80 percent of the energy it takes to run this machine called America.

Let me just make an observation here that I don't think anyone has made yet, and it has to do with fossil fuels.

The assumptions that U.S. forces will have uncontested access to airspace and sea lanes is becoming less and less likely.

The National Defense Strategy provides clear focus on the great power competition with China and Russia.

In Texas, you know more about that, you have more of them. In Oklahoma, we have tornadoes, not hurricanes, but it is the same thing. We have experienced it and know how to react to them. I think that needs to be talked about.

It is kind of rewarding actually, as during the last Administration, when we had a partnership program take place with Fish and Wildlife, they found the States actually were doing a better job.

But we are. For a number of years--this is the same thing you always get, those who are the more liberal individuals think that someone else can set an example in the case of the Federal Government, that somehow they know how to do things…

I understand some people think what our Administrator has been doing is a step backward, but they are the ones who think somehow the Federal Government or other States should be dictating what we do in our State.

Our States should be seen as a partner. I think that is what is going on that is different now than it was during the last Administration.

Cooperative federalism is a core principle of environmental statutes, including the Clean Air Act, where EPA and the States work together to meet environmental goals.

The data simply could not be tortured enough to make its implementation by the States legal, or importantly, feasible.

I have heard from my constituents in the public and private sector in my State of West Virginia that their comments were routinely ignored.

The Obama administration upended the consensus based model for setting environmental regulations.

The EPA's role must be to dutifully implement environmental laws as crafted by Congress and then to collaborate and support our States with matters within our jurisdiction.

Is not one of the fastest ways to get cleaner and safer vehicles on the road to encourage manufacturers to make more affordable vehicles that consumers want to buy?

It is particularly important that all stakeholders are at the table and engaging in dialogue.

I really think that this bill addresses a long list of them, and I have taken the time, as other cosponsors have, of going over and analyzing each one.

The Democrats want more regulation, and they want that regulation to come from Washington, not from locally or from the States.

We need more money revenue to come in to support the Great Society Programs, and the best way to increase revenue is reduce marginal rates.

Only 3 percent of $836 billion actually went to transportation.

Do you remember that? How quickly we forget. So they had the House and the Senate and total control of everything at that time.

I'm stunned that there are Russian molecules sitting in a tanker in Boston Harbor when we are prolific producers of gas in the Marcellus, the Utica in Pennsylvania, for instance.

We would like to see CRISI fully funded.

I was the original co-sponsor of the legislation to make the 45G tax credit permanent and I haven't changed my mind.

We've been doing this now for 20 years that I can attest to and in your testimony, you highlight that many supply chain professionals are disconnected from the policymaking process.