Jim Inhofe

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:23 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, September 28, 2017, at 9:30…

First of all, let me say to the Senator from Oregon that help is on its way. It is a very difficult thing because we don't have any idea how long this is going to last. When you stop to think about a land that is in the tropics not having…

I'd be interested in knowing that.

Are they with the PFCs or what?

I just want to get to the point where we actually get more dogs.

Well, what I'm saying is I've been the ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

I just don't see the problem with this.

But not only do the small business owners suffer from the natural disasters to rebuild and all of that...

Last week I introduced a bill that pertains to the FERC permitting, providing for all Federal, State, and local regulatory agencies to come to the table early to coordinate their participation.

Litigation is a real problem, particularly when you have a project like you were describing, where stakeholders get involved, they are at the table helping develop the project, and then an outside group comes in at the very end and undoes…

And I think we successfully did this in some of our, in our FAST Act, the previous transportation bill prior to that, and we got some things done that otherwise we would not have gotten done. It was a joint effort, very bipartisan effort…

I have been sitting and listening with a lot of interest.

Well, that is good. Well, Mr. Elliott, I wish I were younger, again, but not necessarily to start a new career all over again.

That was considered to be the first major environmental achievement in the last decade.

We should be looking at chemicals individually.

I was the author. In fact, all nine members of this committee, who are also on Environment and Public Works, supported it.

In taking the action, I believe the Commission is moving to regulate what the EPA is better equipped to review.

The FTC has sought significant civil penalties, even when violations are unintentional and injury to the consumers is minimal or non-existing.

It sounds to me like there's a change in the philosophy of those who are serving or in the case of the Obama administration, who had more tendencies toward more that type of regulation.

Please assess the overall impact to Navy readiness for the following provisions...

I was chairman of this Committee at the time that we went through this and, yes, it is ironic that was set up in order to make things come out cleaner, and it didn't work out that way.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You know, this is kind of interesting because there are so many areas here where we are in agreement.

I think you referred to your written testimony. Did you get more detail there?

Well, you know, in my State of Oklahoma we are doing this right now.

I guess I would like to have a comment from each one of you because I've heard from this Committee that there are some arguments that we're actually going to be employing more people.