Jim Inhofe

So the people of California are going to be paying the $850 billion that you have to pay.

We are going to have a lot of discussion hopefully today about jobs and get out of some of the personal attacks.

I do not plan to take that much.

And there are two issues, health care and then this thing we keep saying is not a tax, but what I consider to be the largest tax increase in history.

I have been observing over the last 2 and a half hours or whatever it has been how quickly we forget here in these hallowed halls, the insulation of the U.S. Senate.

The cost of cap-and-trade would be over $1,700 a year per household.

If countries like China and India and Russia are not part of a carbon reduction global program, that it does not matter what we do.

I believe this cap-and-trade concept is a bad idea in any climate, and is a particularly horrible idea in this deep recession.

Now, we can make this country, including the North American continent, energy independent in 15 years, if we have some leadership to start developing in an environmentally friendly, efficient way to tap the energy resources that we have.

America deserves better. America's families, farmers, and workers deserve to know how Kerry-Boxer will impose trillions of dollars in higher energy taxes, kill millions of jobs and treat unfairly entire regions of the country such as the…

Cap-and-trade threatens farmers and livestock producers with higher production costs, from fuel to run their machinery to fertilizer to drying costs to the cost of shipping their goods to market.

All 40 Republican Senators agree with this four-part agenda. So do many Democrats.

If we went full speed ahead, by 2030, nuclear would produce 40 percent of our electricity, natural gas 25 percent.

Building nuclear power plants, 100 of them in 20 years, is the fastest, cheapest, reliable way to reduce carbon from utilities.

This bill is a massive new tax on consumers that will have virtually no effect on climate.

The term global warming again is--I appreciate that.

It is not just foreign oil that jeopardizes our energy security. It is all oil.

[Climate change] will magnify existing tensions in critical regions, overwhelm fragile political, economic and social structures, causing them to fracture and fail.

I find it curious that there is in fact a new engagement policy in light of the violent crackdown on widespread demonstrations in Burma in September 2007.

I understand that the Obama administration has apparently reexamined past approaches to our relations with Burma, and has decided upon a new policy of engagement.

Most threats to children are a function of behavior and lifestyle and are largely preventable.

Despite what some allege, children are not always at greater risk from carcinogenic compounds than adults.

I believe the best way to protect children's health is to use the best available science to properly assess risk.

As a father and grandfather, protecting the health of children--born and unborn--is a personal priority.

It seems to me that I believe and several other people believe, in fact, the majority of people believe that the technology isn't here in a lot of these things, on renewables and other things.