Jim Inhofe

The Obama EPA is intent on picking winners and losers in the energy economy.

Well, I was the mayor of Tulsa when we were out of compliance, and it was very, very difficult.

Meanwhile, the president proposes cutting $40 million from the very successful diesel emission retrofit program that Senator Carper and I support.

That is something that this Committee is very concerned about.

27 States, including my State of Oklahoma, is suing you at this time.

This budget is just the latest example of the Administration's misplaced priorities and how EPA's core programs are being sacrificed to advance President Obama's climate legacy.

I want you to commend your staff that has been working on TSCA with us.

You have to, you say, look at them.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:30 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, April 14, 2016, at 9:30 a.m.

We are not a Nation of individual rugged individualism.

It is insulting to me that we are letting these costs consistently be passed on.

The American public understands the need to act.

No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change. Well, he is wrong.

The most valuable natural resource, what has it done?

The rhetorical attack, the moral attack, and the regulatory attack, not to mention the various kinds of taxation that go into this, impede the ability of these businesses both to employ people and to provide resources at affordable prices…

I want all of you to know that Barbara Boxer and I get along great on roads and highways and infrastructure and a lot of things.

Rhetoric aside, President Obama's climate policies have nothing to do with the environment.

The President's focus on climate change impacting our ability, now, a lot of us up here at this table spend time over there.

Adding another layer to this, making them focus first on climate change as a threat is simply a distraction.

Climate change poses a significant challenge for the United States and the world at large.

The President's claims that his efforts are about protecting the health of this country or national security are equally disingenuous.

Fossil fuels help lift communities out of abject poverty.

The greatest threat, in a word, is Russia.

His climate change policies aren't protecting this country; they are killing the coal industry.

The EPA's failure to consult with small businesses against the Office of Advocacy's recommendation hurt its members.