Jim Inhofe

Do you think lowering the NEC standard would impose costs on the economy that are just not acceptable?

Do you think that is wise? I mean, I have lived with this now for several years, and they said, no, we can't talk about the costs of these things.

I am growing increasingly concerned about the EPA's systematic distortion of the costs and benefits.

The elderly and the poor are most at risk for losing their homes and health due to the skyrocketing electricity bills.

If this happened, businesses would not be able to expand, it would essentially close the whole Nation for business and result in millions of job losses.

This distortion enables the Agency to enact outlandish rules of obscene costs and harm to the economy.

The reason I am introducing, and I think we did it yesterday, or maybe it was today, the 321 legislation is because I know that the EPA isn't looking at the cascading impacts of the rules to determine the costs that it will have on the…

If there's a narrative of pessimism, if there's a narrative of abuse, if there's a narrative that we're not good stewards, I think that affects our mission.

I think that in many cases they're sensationalized.

I don't think there's any doubt that al Qaeda has an intent to once again attack the West.

A withdrawal in my mind means abandoning the people of Afghanistan, abandoning the endeavor that we've been on for the last decade.

President Karzai's refusal to sign the BSA despite support by the Afghan people has cast a doubt about the future of Afghanistan security and stability.

We must ensure that decisions about the future of our mission in Afghanistan after 2014 are based on sound strategy and the facts on the ground.

The reason I did not use the word ``hoax'' is because then I might be guilty of advertising my book, and I certainly did not want to do that.

With the passage of this bill, there will be funding to improve and expand our VA clinics in 19 States across the United States, including Louisiana and Oklahoma. The facilities would then be able to provide the services that were promised…

I want to thank Chairman Boxer for holding this hearing, and I also want to note how deeply saddened I am by the loss of life that's been experienced at the chemical plant incidents over the last year.

What I would say to all of our colleagues, and we do not like to think about this, but Russia is thinking about it, China is thinking about it, Iran is thinking about it.

China... says, 'if we launch our DF31A ICBMs over the North Pole, we can easily destroy a whole list of metropolises on the east coast.'

Reducing the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. security strategy is a U.S. objective, while Russia is pursuing new concepts and capabilities for expanding the role of nuclear weapons in its security strategy.

It seems like we have had a move that recognizes the triad's importance and the need to modernize nuclear weapons.

I think it creates a dangerous perception perhaps that either we are going to go to zero or we are not going to use the weapons if we have them and create instability and a lack of confidence in our allies around the world.

New systems are too often set at the far limit of current technological boundaries.

In 2013, the Department of Defense awarded contracts for about $308 billion for products and services, of which 43 percent was awarded without competition.

I believe that stability and tenure length matters.

Is it because our system allows one person, whether that person is the President of the United States or the Secretary of Defense, to make these decisions that are so irresponsible?