Jim Inhofe

Ultimately, we agreed to withdraw our complaint in return for the White House's guarantee in writing that the National Assessment does not reflect policy positions or official statements of the U.S. Government.

Which is really the whole key to the Homeland Security, to consolidate these functions so that you are listening to one person, one department.

I think also, and I would ask you this, it is kind of false to call the expired Superfund tax a tax on polluters, in that it taxes many people, many entities out there that are not polluters.

I agree with that. I think we all need to keep saying it, because we keep hearing things to the contrary.

I would just like to ask you, Governor Whitman, can you identify any Superfund site--past, present, or in the pipeline--where an identifiable and viable polluter has not been held liable, consistent with the law, for their share of…

This has been a top priority, as I mentioned in my opening statement.

I think we need to keep saying that.

I would also voice just a very friendly disagreement with something else that Senator Jeffords said...

I believe that the Clear Skies Initiative is the largest proposed reduction in pollutants that any President, any Administration, has ever proposed.

President Bush's budget continues the Nation's strong progress toward a cleaner environment.

President Bush's budget for the EPA stresses results over bureaucratic mandates and processes: cleaner air, cleaner water, cleaner land, as opposed to more paperwork and more lawsuits.

President Bush's budget harnesses the power of innovation and technology to address the Nation's environmental challenges.

I do not think there has been a time in our history that we have had to call up so much of the Reserve component.

Isn't this exercise that they refer to by the U.S.S. Carl Vinson the same exercise that we do on a regular basis virtually every year?

We need to get on with the F-22, we need to get on with a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) cannon that can be fielded and can be competitive with potential adversaries.

If you are not in a position to come before this committee with the training and the basing and maintenance, I am probably going to oppose the lease altogether

I know you have been good stewards, all of you have, and that is the problem.

You are going to have to come to this committee for ratification of that lease agreement, is that correct?

Does the budget adequately fund that program to meet the congressionally-mandated time line, that is fielding this by 2008?

I thank both of you for your courageous answers.

We were spending more money in Camp Lejeune to protect the species than we were on ammunition.

I was deeply concerned when you took away the live-fire training capability at Vieques.

Do you feel that this budget give you all the money necessary for you to get something deployed against a missile attack, at least a partial missile attack, or do you need something more in there?

I wish that veto had not taken place.

Every time I hear the argument that we don't want to enhance our nuclear capability because they will do the same thing, if you carry that to its logical conclusion, if we just disarmed, then everyone else would disarm too and we wouldn't…