Jim Inhofe

The cumulative effect of sequestration and budget shortfalls over the last 3 years has forced the Navy to accept significant risk in key mission areas.

History has proven that failure to appropriately train and modernize the force will result in larger numbers of casualties and deaths.

If we are forced to take further endstrength reductions beyond the planned levels in the President's fiscal year 2016 budget due to sequestration, our flexibility deteriorates, as does our ability to react to strategic surprise.

Senator Enzi was going to be here, so I am hoping his schedule will allow him to use his time this afternoon. ____________________

I think the House is going to be very cooperative.

The costs to comply with EPA's plan would be $479 billion.

I would like to ask for a motion to approve the rules as amended.

We are going to have Secretary Fox, which has been a good appointment.

Madam Administrator, if we were to pass some of the cap and trade bills that we are talking about today, or the regulations that would bring us cap and trade, would this have a reduction in overall CO2 emissions. She said, no, it wouldn't…

The conservative position is to pass a highway reauthorization bill.

A huge indirect tax and wealth redistribution scheme that the EPA is imposing by fiat will profoundly touch every American.

The President's misguided agenda on climate change has led to an onslaught of new regulations that is endangering the future of job creation, energy independence and reliability of the power grid.

This is very significant. Probably this is singled out by the farmers.

It is very clear I think to me--and I will not ask you--well, I will ask you to respond. We are in a weakened condition right now that we have not been in relative to the threat that is out there, at least in the 20-plus years that I have…

We are a rich Nation. We are a capable Nation. We should be able to provide for the common defense at the same time we are providing for the citizens' needs at home.

I like one of the quotes, many of the quotes, of President Reagan. One of them is none of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we are too strong. It is weakness that invites adventurous adversaries to make mistaken judgments.

I think our capability is not adequate to deal with all the challenges that I see.

I say resoundingly yes, because we want to keep this thing going.

We must know the objective when we start and the political strategy with which to culminate it.

In January 2015, the EPA IG notified the White House that CSB Chairman Moure-Eraso, General Counsel Richard Loeb and Managing Director David Horowitz knowingly, all three, violated the Federal Records Act by using personal email accounts…

In the event this is true, you would be willing to terminate these people?

We were saying that given the fact that they took the same actions, discussed by the IG and another person, if that is true, do you think should continue if they were guilty of the same thing, the same deficiencies as the chairman at that…

Decisions on the pace and magnitude of further troop reductions will be made by the President of the United States in accordance with the ISAF mandate which ends on December 31, 2014.

No more than 21 percent of Afghanistan will be accessible to U.S. civilian oversight personnel by the end of 2014.

Thank you for holding this hearing.