Jim Inhofe

The Obama EPA is aggressively moving forward to regulate nearly all aspects of American life--it now has regulations covering dust on farms and puddles of water along the side of road.

The truth about Obama's regulatory agenda is inescapable: it's designed make the energy we use more expensive.

For every $1 that we spend for diesel emission reduction, we basically get a benefit, economic and health benefit of about $13.

It is pretty clear that something bad is going on, and we have an obligation, and I think an opportunity, to do something about it.

The wisdom of the Senate is that not more than 30 members of a 100-member Senate will vote to impose that type of cap and trade and those restrictions that would damage our economy.

The greenhouse gas regulations, we are looking at a cost, a potential cost to the American people annually of between $300 billion and $400 billion dollars.

I hope that is an indication that the Administration realizes that we have economic problems enough without imposing more economic problems on our Country.

Steven Chu said, somehow we have got to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels of those in Europe.

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

The public would be ill-served if politics impedes the confirmation of one of the Commission's most distinguished members...

It is very important, in a challenging time that we have significant water resources needs across the country.

We are also considering the nomination of Richard Howorth to serve on the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

I often say to my colleagues here, you don't know what a hard job is until you have been a mayor.

Today, we will hear from Lieutenant General Thomas P. Bostick who is nominated to be the Chief of Engineers...

We are joining together and trying to do something with a transportation reauthorization bill.

I saw this morning, Madam Chairman, an article that quoted U.S. Senator Patty Murray, that supports Ostendorff's nomination.

The nomination of William Ostendorff to serve on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is crucial...

I have been wanting to have, there is lots of legislation on some of this regulation, I am talking about the Boiler MACT regulation, Utility MACT, the cap and trade, the ozone and all these things, about the cumulative effect it has on…

I believe it is imperative that we have a full set of commissioners.

GTMO is the single greatest repository of human intelligence in the war on terror.

I think we want to make sure that we don't all say that this is all this administration.

The way this was done...was something that is very, very offensive, something that reverts back to the old colonial days.

I believe in my heart, and after going there, that this would be the best solution.

I have personally talked to friends of Gbagbo, people who are on the Cabinet, and others, whose names I wouldn't use, because they would be summarily executed, and you know that as well as I do.

We showed that 94,000, in just one region, was taken out, was intentionally miscalculated.