Jim Inhofe

I think we are kind of tending to talk around it.

Your Mama probably is the only person in America that will have equal praise from Senator Markey and me.

I have often said I felt that I was more responsible for getting Barbara Boxer to come with us on the chemical legislation.

I have every reason to believe that you will take great consideration of the input that is out there.

I was listening intently to the Senator from Texas, who is certainly familiar with the problems on the border. It happens that I spent 30 years down there as a builder and developer many years ago. I got to know the border people. They are…

Why would we be encumbered here in the United States with regulations that are going to put people out of business?

Last week I introduced legislation that would ensure that China is held to the same emissions reductions commitment as the United States. Now, isn't that common sense?

The job killing, I have a hard time figuring out why we are doing what we are doing.

Under this agreement, and this is kind of reliving what happened in the past, China gets a free ride.

My concern is that China will not have to do that. There are many industries here in the United States that will actually benefit from more regulations in the United States because all they have to do is move to China, and there won't be…

I can't think of any person who has possessed a position like yours that I have been more fond of but had to vote against than you.

I contend are illegal because, first of all, just the size limit of 500.

The CARES Act included funding to allow the SBA to provide debt relief payments for regular SBA loans.

If you are confirmed, can you commit to proactively helping businesses to begin making regular loan payments?

I would like to make sure that there is no one here--what we all agree is, we do need a long-term highway bill to give the States the certainty and predictability.

One of the worst offenders of that was Bill Clinton. He actually took--I can't remember how many billion dollars was out of that.

I think also the fact that we are now looking at something on the electric vehicles on paying their fair share, and I just rejoice in the fact that people are talking about that now, and it is popular, and it is very fair.

I want to enter into the record this time, it is a similar letter. It is signed by stakeholders that we all know, such as the National League of Cities, the National Restaurant Association, Energy Marketers of America, and a lot of others…

I think this hearing has been very helpful.

Normally, coal is about 10 percent of our mix, and we had to use up to 40 percent.

My point is the diversity. That is what saved us in the State of Oklahoma.

I think that speaks to your concern about the fuel diversity and how important that is.

I have always felt anything that takes 5 years can be done in 2 years.

In reality, we know that we disagree on some things, and we were very frank about that in our conversations.

SREs are of great importance for refinery States like Oklahoma.