Jim Inhofe

Here's what I actually said, and what I predicted, 4 years ago:

CAIR is significantly more vulnerable to court challenges than Clear Skies would have been and will undoubtedly be held up, not unlike the Clinton administration's 1997 air quality standards.

Any policy that Congress considers should include a reasonable risk analysis process that would take into consideration risk management options for controlling non-native species.

Common sense reforms are needed to prevent the importation or breeding of species that would be harmful to our ecosystem.

I think that the protection of our native wildlife from harmful invasive species should receive increased Federal attention.

That it would go so far and, quite frankly, if you feel, if you do not feel, that the Federal jurisdiction should come to these areas, that is a great concern.

Well, what about water that collected in a ditch? You see, this is what I am really concerned about----

We are all familiar with this. We remember the background, where it started, we are familiar with the two court decisions...

If you are confirmed, which you will be confirmed, will you commit to answering requests for information and documents from the minority and respond the same as you would those requests coming from the majority?

The costs are disproportionate. It is the Heartland that is paying for the East Coast and the West Coast.

This lack of responsiveness is a real impediment to us in fulfilling our constitutional duties over oversight.

I demanded an investigation of the suppression of the March 9, 2009, direct report on the endangerment of finding for greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.

Do think that sometimes, sometimes, not always, but sometimes, that Washington knows more about, and should be involved in, land use in a Tulsa, Oklahoma, than people who live in Tulsa?

I just really want to be able to say, to my people in Oklahoma, how far this thing really could go.

Some classified information that could be essential to the conviction of these detainees is still extremely sensitive and could compromise ongoing activities as well as American lives.

When does the administration plan to ask permission from Congress to authorize long-term detention of detainees?

What is the risk of releasing Guantanamo detainees given the recidivism rate is 1 in 7?

Today the Guantanamo detainees are held under well-established laws of war permitting belligerents to confine captured enemies until hostilities are over.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller said there is the very real possibility that the Guantanamo detainees will recruit more terrorists from among the Federal inmate population and continue al Qaeda operations from the…

I honestly do not believe that process debates like this are serving the American people.

Eighty-one billion dollars, that would just be the death knoll of some of our oil and gas producers.

The American people did wake up. And I am confident they will do that again.

I do not think this bill is going to pass. It will pass out of this committee... But on the floor it will not.

We need to try to do it in a way that does not have huge costs for families, and does not do grave damage to our economy.

To have more nuclear and get ourselves off foreign oil and gas ought to be a big goal of what we are doing.