Jim Inhofe

Are the Falcon Heavy and Vulcan the only potential replacements for the Atlas V or are there other alternatives such as replacing the Atlas V engine?

This is an important topic for many of us in the United States Senate and one that we will continue to pursue through fruition.

For our warfighters like Senator Cotton, we need the best available small arms for our infantrymen.

There are a lot of people in OSD that would rather make antiballistic missiles and supersonic aircraft than rifles.

This has been a passion of his.

Seven to 10 years is way too long. Would you agree we need pressure to make this happen?

I believe we are going to need this type of pressure from this administration as well to ensure that this actually happens.

I am optimistic. I have heard it from the Administration that we are going to get aggressive and do the things we should have done before.

It has been my experience in conversations I have had with our new President that everything is on the table.

I believe building and maintaining our nation's infrastructure should also be a top priority for our Federal Government.

Republicans and Democrats are often at odds over a number of things, but when it comes to infrastructure, we generally have bipartisan agreement.

It is time to think about what happened 8 years ago.

This is an area we should be able to get done, Mr. Chairman. We have a President of the United States making transportation one of his top priorities.

We have given Baltimore the flexibility of using transportation money to reconnect neighborhoods so that people can literally walk and bike between neighborhoods without using their cars.

Inhofe, Hon. James M., U.S. Senator from the State of Oklahoma...

There is an old, worn out document nobody ever reads anymore called the Constitution.

It shows that people of opposite and different philosophies can get along and make wonderful things happen.

There are a lot of silver BBs, some are bigger than others.

I can remember Barbara Boxer and I trying to put amendments on there to use that for that very reason.

I appreciate your presence here very much.

I have spent the last year or so working on legislation that gives small businesses a stronger voice in the regulatory process.

I feel it is a good government bill that would encourage Federal agencies to more carefully consider the impacts of their rules on small businesses.

It is not very often that we get someone that is going through confirmation that is nearly the perfect one, and I think you come very close.

We all want to work together and make sure government is doing what it should do, but certainly getting out of the way when it needs to as well.

I appreciate the fact that you used the distinction between the veterans and the returning warriors, and we have both, and they both have a very similar problem.