Honorable James M. Inhofe
United States Senator, Oklahoma, Republican
Senator Inhofe was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994. He served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1966 to 1969 and in the Oklahoma Senate from 1969 to 1977. He was Mayor of Tulsa from 1978 to 1984 and a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1986 to 1994. He is a member of the Armed Services Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, the Indian Affairs Committee, and the Select Committee on Intelligence. The following is from the January 21, 2003, Senate floor debate on amendments to the Omnibus Appropriations Resolution.Despite the rhetoric we…