Jim Inhofe

It is essential that we do not reverse the gains made last year with fiscal year 2017 funds.

I really appreciated the personal visit from you guys to be able to get into these things, because we are in a recovery mode right now, and it is going to take our interest to do it.

We cannot justify doing what we should do in rebuilding our military.

We have a serious problem that is... compared to the late 1970s, the hollow force.

The American people need to know the problems.

I want to echo your words, both of you, in praise for Ms. Svinicki. She has been excellent.

They are disciplined, we are not.

Andrew Wheeler, he worked for me for 14 years. You get to know a guy pretty well in 14 years. We passed more legislation together under his leadership, leading the Committee as well as my personal staff, than we have ever done before. He…

That is exactly what happened. And by the way, Fish and Wildlife did agree.

I appreciate that very much because that certainly is true.

In my area of Oklahoma, in western Oklahoma, it is very arid, and those people out there, of all the regulations that were put in by the previous Administration, that was the No. 1 regulation.

The fact that we have all these regulations out there is really pretty outrageous.

A lot of these costly and outrageous rules are about one thing and one thing only, and that is control, and primarily Federal control.

During that time, the other Iowa students and I lived on a collective farm for a number of weeks.

He will step over the line. We should shwack him.

It is interesting that he has chosen these methods of provocation, which are, in fact, within his own country.

I believe that the North Koreans understand that when we retaliate for an outrageous provocation that they conducted against us, that is connected to that provocation.

The record, when we have responded to North Korean provocations, has been entirely positive.

When the Cheonan was sunk, we should have bombed the submarine base from which the submarine came that conducted that attack.

We should not only consider retaliatory strikes for lower level provocations by North Korea, we should carry them out.

In spite of the fact that, at the time, the previous examples they are using where, at that time, North Korea did not have the degree of success they have had most recently.

Every time the United States is firm and strong, North Korea backs down and waits for another day.

I guess that kind of fits in with you deviating a little bit from others' opinion.

A steady, sustained, powerful American policy can keep North Korea under control, where we have it and where it belongs.

The word 'imminent'... is a word that is used describing North Korea by every witness that we have had so far appearing before this committee.