Jim Inhofe

Even at the full funding, it is not adequate. And that is coming from a conservative. And I feel strongly about that.

I guess what I am saying is, we have a lot of really good reforms.

Would there be a specific program in our State of Oklahoma that you could just real quickly address as to what difference that would make in that project?

Delaying completion of that project would not only cause additional costs, but certainly you could expect to have additional accidents, both personal injury and maybe even fatalities.

It would have been such an easy thing at that time to do, that we didn't do it. We just don't want to make that mistake again.

With her leadership and dedication, and the great work of Senators Baucus and Vitter, we have put together a really good highway bill.

This is life-threatening, it is something we are going to have to do.

I want to put an editorial from the Oklahoman in the record. I think it is very, very good.

It will be virtually impossible to pass unless we are able to do that.

I have been ranked more often than not the most conservative member of the U.S. Senate.

We recognize that this is what we are supposed to be doing up here.

I don't think that putting it off is an option.

We acknowledge that the proposal that we have has a $12 billion shortfall.

We have put together, I think, a really good highway bill, under the circumstances.

We do not believe Fish and Wildlife is responsible for the regulation of greenhouse gases.

I would be very concerned about these efforts in all of the various regulatory bodies.

The United States of America has the largest recoverable reserves in oil, natural gas and coal than any country in the world.

Let me further say that the Obama-EPA's water policies represent an aggressive, heavy handed, top down approach to regulation.

These strict regulatory approaches are costly and have questionable environmental gains attached to them.

The upcoming announcement by the EPA to tighten the ozone standard, which would ruin Oklahoma's and the broader American economy.

This is the thing I like about this committee. You can totally disagree with everything the other guy stands for and love him anyway.

There has never been a case of groundwater contamination as a result of that practice.

I strongly oppose EPA's actions here and sincerely hope that they listen to the 40 other members who joined me in requesting that they abandon any additional actions on this document.

EPA's Office of Water has shown a stunning lack of transparency in their decisionmaking in a number of programs.

Ms. Wodder's support for regulatory advancement suggests that she would do the opposite.