Jim Inhofe

Now, Mr. Ashe, when I first read this thing, examine everything we do, every decision we make, every dollar we spend through the lens of climate change, what was your role in adopting that language?

The targets and timetables proposed would bring about the same result as cap-and-trade: higher energy costs, fewer jobs, and lower productivity.

They are currently cranking out still, last time I heard, some two coal-fired generators a week.

Our objective should be to ``increase domestic energy supplies--including wind, solar, geothermal, as well as oil, gas, nuclear, and coal--to make energy cleaner, more affordable, more abundant, and more reliable.'

It's time to get back to basics: supporting and encouraging domestic energy production, onshore and offshore; removing tax and regulatory barriers to innovative clean energy technologies.

Activist groups are blocking their construction.

I am concerned about this, and concerned, of course, about the green jobs.

What all these policies that are being debated are doing are simply asking, will the jobs be in the industries that are most productive, or will it be in the jobs be in industries that Government programs are favoring and pushing.

I question the need for a new Federal energy mandate.

I am spending quite a bit of my time on some of the over-regulation that is coming from the Environmental Protection Agency.

I understand that our Chairman had started out with some of the things that are happening in China.

I guess I would end up with the notion that is not Government that creates jobs.

Our problem is, our politicians won't let us, we are the only country that can't exploit our own resources.

Imperil tens of thousands of jobs, that many more tens of thousands of jobs in the supply chains and in the communities where these plants are located also will be at risk.

They have a rather cramped definition of 'clean'.

I am concerned that you are being put in a very awkward situation right now.

I think that it is important that a director have a background as you have.

DOD is spending billions to rebuild the helicopter fleets of Iraq and Afghanistan, by using Russian helicopters.

The deadlines of July 2011, summer of 2012, and December 2014 continue to have a devastating effect on operations.

Progress has been made but it is fragile and reversible.

Dr. Carter, as a proportion of total combat deaths, infantry has increased from 71 percent in World War II to 81 percent in wars fought since.

DOD recently sent a report to Congress on the Chinese military, warning that: '... China's military has benefited from robust investment in modern hardware and technology.'

The United States wants a normal, productive relationship with Iraq going forward--a partnership like we have with other countries in the region and around the world.

I believe leaving 3,000-4,000 U.S. forces in Iraq increases the risk to those forces and jeopardizes the successes achieved.

Dr. Carter, is 2,443 the validated number of F-35s required by our Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps?