Jim Inhofe

Let me reclaim my time just to make one other comment. The two people who are sitting here, Peter Levine on your side and John Bonsell on our side, their compatibility in working together is also unprecedented. It doesn't happen very…

Over the last several years, I have consistently voiced my concern about the overregulation coming out of this Administration.

It could also stall much of the new oil and gas development going on around the country.

But, you mentioned the Chiefs, and Odierno and the other Chiefs have come and testified in this room before us that, even before these things erupted, it was not adequate.

I appreciate, Secretary Hagel, the statement you made when you said that ISIS poses an imminent threat to every interest we have, whether it's in Iraq or anyplace else.

We are trying to be conservative on this.

If we want our military men and women to go into harm's way and defend this country, we need to give them the training, the tools, and the support they need to succeed.

ISIS has reported 35,000 fighters, nearly three times larger than it was in June.

The President again failed to acknowledge the seriousness of the threat that ISIS poses to the U.S. national security in its homeland.

It will take an army to beat an army.

If Western countries act in Iraq and Syria without visible participation and leadership of Arab nations, it will play into the propaganda pitch of the violent extremists that we are interested in dominating Iraq and Syria.

The effort to rid Iraq of ISIS cannot be successful without the support of all elements of Iraqi society, including not only Shi'ites, Kurds, and religious minorities, but also the Sunni tribes.

It will not involve American combat troops fighting on the soil. American forces will not have a combat mission.

Now we face an extremist organization that is larger, more brutal, better networked, and better funded than al Qaeda ever was.

I believe the President, under both domestic and international law, has the authority to conduct the type of limited military campaign that he outlined last week.

This should be a no-brainer. It is not your fault but you are faced with this now.

I certainly do not understand where we are with these.

We all agree that your function is to provide and ensure safety. However, that does not happen in a vacuum.

I talked about my concern over the cumulative effect of costs to industry, to providers, to stakeholders, to the public of all these rules.

I don't believe everyone on the Committee has even had the opportunity to meet with the nominees in person.

I was a little disturbed about the rapid process we are using.

A lot of the regulations being considered by the NRC today are in response to the Fukushima disaster in Japan.

I believe that nuclear power has to be a part of the mix.

This rule would be a broad expansion of the authority that EPA has over States that has a broad political impact and could dramatically reshape an entire sector of the economy.

I would ask you if you could enforce it.