Jim Inhofe

I fear that a national infrastructure bank will serve urban areas at the expense of rural.

Transportation is often neglected.

We are going to have to get a little more creative.

That bank idea will rob the future growth of the highway program.

The challenges in continuing to provide a safe and free flowing transportation network have never been greater.

There is a direct link between a robust economy and a strong transportation infrastructure.

We cannot run this machine called America without the nuclear component.

I think that's significant, because you talk to most people and they don't realize that.

No one should be pleased that the accident did happen, but I am very pleased that the Commission and industry have spent the last 30 years improving the safety of our existing plants and preparing to build new reactors.

I mean, here we are with 20 percent of our energy coming from nuclear and some of the Western European countries, France, I believe is 80 percent.

Would you, Chairman Klein, describe to us any public health impacts that resulted from that accident 30 years ago?

I can't think of anything more important that is happening in America today in terms of our future capability to run this machine than to be talking about nuclear energy.

The earmarks, if you total them up, are less than 1 percent of the $410 billion, so we're not talking about a huge amount.

Let me share something I was just handed. This is new news that came out apparently today.

I would like to put into the record this Japan Society of Energy and Resources that you broke the news to us, they are dominated by the power companies in Japan, the gas chemical companies.

I don't think we can ignore any of these studies.

I hope you will have the opportunity to refute and certainly do that to each and every allegation in perhaps a written communication.

Let's get America's energy as clean as we can, as fast as we can, without raising energy prices on the people of America.

If these countries do enact strict and expensive regulations, we will then avert the 4 degree and instead incur only a 2 degree increase by the year 2050.

I applaud you for having this science hearing, and I think that we need to let them know that the science is not settled.

I don't need computer models to tell me that people are hurting financially.

I don't need computer models to tell me that the people are hurting financially.

We have just passed numerous bailout bills.

If you want our kids that we send off to battle to have the best equipment, then we need to have F-22s.

Some of us don't think that's a good idea and we want to at least be heard as well as the other side.