Jim Inhofe

I think that shows that, since the inception of the Endangered Species, there have been 1,652 listings and only 40 de-listed in terms due to recovery.

I would argue that the lack of a formal process for the States to be at the table in the decision process for listing leaves a hole.

I think that Director Wiley suggested the same thing. I think that is well taken.

Fish and Wildlife seems to move the goalpost.

That has been a problem, Montgomery buoy to lock and dam and the depth issue, for a long, long time.

That statement does not fit those circumstances, however.

U.S. Corps of Engineers projects generate over $109 billion annually in economic benefits and generate over $34 billion in revenue to the United States Treasury.

I thank you, Senator Cardin, for your contribution here and your partnership in these efforts.

I think that is good. There is not time to give the examples that are out there but it is a bureaucratic problem.

Unfortunately, like most of our infrastructure, our water resources are aging and in great need of repair and upgrading.

Today's first Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee hearing is on a subject that is very important to Nation, including my home State of Oklahoma.

The September 2016 floods which impacted Cedar Rapids where the Cedar River crested at a level second to only the 2008, 500-year flood event, caused Cedar Rapids to lose $26 million in sales and production due to being essentially shut…

I think it is important that the public knows these conversations are taking place.

In Oklahoma, we know these benefits firsthand with ports along the McClellan-Kerr-Arkansas Navigation System connecting Oklahoma with the Mississippi River and with the rest of the world.

I think that a lot of these rulemakings are well intentioned, but they end up tying our hands and costing consumers more.

I mean, this idea that you have to be forced to do these things--you're the guy that pays for all this stuff.

When I was Chairman for a number of years of a committee called the Environment and Public Works, where all the over-regulations came--and most of them were EPA regulations.

You've got to make those considerations.

If you ask any of our people in Oklahoma as to what is mostly accountable for it, they will say Dodd-Frank.

I mean, everything has to be regulated more. The water regulation, for example, if you talk to anyone in the farm communities throughout the country, they will say the biggest problem that farmers and ranchers have is the overregulation of…

Unpredictability is what the military is going to tell us on Thursday is the major problem that they have with North Korea.

Is it completely unreasonable that, as a result of this, we can consider North Korea as the greatest threat facing the United States?

I believe that there is an argument that it can pose the greatest threat to the United States.

I have to almost conclude that the guy really means it when he comes out with a statement.

I have always had this bias that this is really where the serious problem is.