Jim Inhofe

I think, though, that the primary thing is the crumbling infrastructure.

Yes, I did oppose the stimulus bill because it didn't stimulate. It is as simple as that.

There is an undeniable link between a robust economy and strong transportation infrastructure investment.

For years I have been leading the fight in Washington for increased investment in transportation and infrastructure.

This simply means that we will go back to the highway program being funded $1 billion a month lower than 2009 levels.

I am relieved the Senate was able to work out a deal last night on the 30-day extension of the highway program.

I am a big spender. That is what we are supposed be doing here.

This Committee has such an incredible jurisdiction. It has the largest jurisdiction of any Committee in the U.S. Senate.

I do not think this country needs to create another corporation, a corporation that would be authorized to impose an annual assessment on U.S. members of the travel and tourism industry represented on a board of directors of the…

Thank you, Madam Chairman and Chairman Cardin, for holding this hearing on the following great water bodies...

I fought for years on the floor of the U.S. Senate to keep us from going down the road of financial destruction in having a cap-and-trade type of approach.

Dr. Phil Jones says, I do not believe the vast majority of climate scientists think the debate is over.

People who have said the science is settled, the science is settled, the science is settled, and they say it over and over again hoping that if they say it enough times they will believe it.

We are the only country in the world whose Congress will not allow us to explore our own resources.

We can do it overnight. Right now we are the largest--we have the largest recoverable reserves of coal, natural gas and oil of any country out there including China, including Russia. The problem is political.

The idea that the anthropogenic gases are causing catastrophic global warming is probably the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

This would constitute something like a $300 billion to $400 billion tax increase on the American people, that it would destroy our economy.

U.S. action alone will not impact world CO2 levels.

Phil Jones is the scientist at IPCC. He is the top guy. He was the one at East Anglia, it is kind of the clearinghouse for all of the scientists. He is the one who is under investigation right now.

I know the distinguished Senator from Vermont wants so badly to believe that the science is settled and that anthropogenic gases cause global warming, and the science is not settled.

I believe we can protect the environment while still providing for economic growth.

The only people who are going to benefit from many of these policies are the Washington environmental special interests and their lobbyists, not the American people.

Creating jobs is America's No. 1 priority.

I am completely opposed to forgoing ahead on that administratively. I do believe the only proper route for that policy is through Congress.

I am releasing an EPW minority report on the scandal known as 'Climategate.'