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On the recordJuly 11, 2024
Madam President, I rise today to take a moment to reflect on the remarkable life of Senator Jim Inhofe, who passed away and is now spending time with his Lord and Savior in heaven. I rise for a number of reasons: One, because he was such a fantastic public servant who served our Nation in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years. I rise because, as a member of the U.S. Army, he served his Nation valiantly and selflessly. I rise because here is a man of great faith who dedicated his life to public service. But I also rise because of the slanderous headlines that marked his death. People wonder time and time again why the American people continue to lose faith in our media, when the headlines from Associated Press or Politico, New York Times and ABC News reflects a partisan difference on policy and leads them to label his death in such a negative way. It does, indeed, cripple their credibility in the eyes of the American people when the Washington Post speaks of the death of an ISIS terrorist by saying he was an austere, religious scholar at the helm of the Islamic State. But Senator James Inhofe, the Oklahoma Senator and climate change denier, dies at 89. It saddens me, as an American, that our press pays so little attention to the sacrifice of public servants and so much respect for those who kill because they can.…
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Tim Scott
Republican · South Carolina

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