Jim Inhofe

The annual economic benefit to our Nation from our investments in Corps projects averages about $110 billion a year.

Today's hearing on the importance of enacting a Water Resources Development Act or WRDA will highlight the importance of rebuilding America's crumbling infrastructure.

To be competitive, the United States must make infrastructure investment part of its growth strategy.

If we, as a country, ignore the problems facing our waterway and our port and our flood control infrastructure, those benefits and jobs will be at risk.

This is kind of interesting, because historically we have always wanted to have one every 2 years.

Both Senator Boxer and I have made passing the WRDA bill in 2016 a top priority.

The U.S. marine transportation industry supports $2 trillion in commerce and creates jobs for over 13 million people.

What difference does it make if it is using outside Government resources to do something, to make an approval on a public project, whether that resulted from a natural disaster or otherwise?

The aggregate investment that we need over time is $1.7 trillion, by 2050.

Thanks to the projects of both the Arkansas River and the Red River Basin, more than $500 million in damages were prevented in Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana after historic rainfall this past spring.

We are going to be highlighting the importance of rebuilding America's crumbling infrastructure and the national economic benefits that this infrastructure supports.

Somehow there is this perception that if you are a landowner or a rancher, somehow you do not want to conserve. That is so wrong.

We meet today to discuss the Federal Government's encroachment on State rights to manage fish and wildlife populations.

I was really coming here for two purposes. One was to learn a little bit more about Alaska and the other was to let this committee and the witnesses know that the problems you have up there are not unique to Alaska.

The highest court in the country has serious reservations on the legal soundness of the rule.

On February 9, 2016, the Supreme Court issued a historic stay, which puts the Clean Power Plan on hold...

No State should fear any penalty for heeding the Court's decision.

What is the status of the new Long Range Discrimination Radar in Alaska--funding, planning and timeline?

What are we doing to protect our missile defense capabilities against a cyber-attack?

The fiscal year 2016 NDAA directed deployment of a long-range discrimination radar or other appropriate sensor capability to support the defense of the Homeland against Iran by 31 Dec 2020.

When we were initially starting, the first Obama budget in 2009, it cut missile defense by $1.4 billion.

I am glad that we are--there are so many people out there and they think that we are just--that Israel is always the beneficiary of everything that goes on. That is not true at all.

They are catching up or in some areas even passing us.

Our potential adversaries are pursuing advanced weapons development not seen in decades.

The defense of the American people shouldn't have a pricetag.