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James Mountain Inhofe is a former United States Senator from Oklahoma, serving from 1994 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Inhofe is known for his strong conservative views, particularly on issues related to national defense and environmental policy. He gained notoriety for his skepticism regarding climate change, famously calling it a hoax. Throughout his tenure, he held significant positions, including Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
But on the things that were really important, we did manage to get things accomplished. There is an awful lot of hate around here, and it is so unnecessary. You can disagree with someone and love them anyway. I have to say that confession…
That was a very emotional and heartfelt speech. As I look around, I know there are a lot of people who want to respond and be heard, but I grabbed it first. This will be real short. I believe it was the majority leader who gave me a quote…
Congress should consider not funding any requested LCS in fiscal year 2017, and should consider requiring the Navy to revise its acquisition strategy for the frigate.
We are always talking about cost overruns. We are talking about increased--you know, the costs and delays.
We do have five new bases going into the Philippines, and I think it's important that we really focus on these counter-ISIS opportunities.
But, what would that--I would ask the question, then, Why are we not providing defensive lethal assistance to the Ukraine?
I was in Ukraine right after their parliamentary elections, and I've never seen Poroshenko or any of them as happy as they were at that time.
The only thing more expensive than deterrence is actually fighting a war. The only thing more expensive than fighting a war is losing a war.
I was kind of hoping this wouldn't devolve into a climate committee, but I suspected it might.
I want to compliment you on the very strong language you used in your opening statement concerning what has happened over in the Ukraine.
Vieques provides integrated live-fire training critical to our readiness, and the failure to provide for live--for adequate live-fire training for our naval forces for forward deployment will place these forces in an…
It's hard for me to believe that it's been 16 years since we fought, and lost, the battle of Vieques.
Let me ask the Chair. Is it possible for me to go ahead and receive from him a specific period of time at the end of which he retains the floor? The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cassidy). That would require unanimous consent.
Would the Senator mind, since I am going to be talking about projects in New Jersey and about the WRDA projects in which the Senator has a lot of interest--will he yield to me to talk about that for 10 minutes?
I understand that. But will the Senator please advise us as to how much longer he will be taking on the floor?
We all talked about and made our own comments about what happened in Paris and the President coming up with a commitment that he would be reducing CO2 emissions by between 26 and 28 percent by 2025, and then we made an effort through every…
The administration recently took action to block certain tech center benefits from our vets.
Career and technical education centers are vital as a post-secondary education option and workforce training system for our veterans.
We have some legislation that is called S. 2554 that would give the VISNs more options, more authority to get things done.
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