Honorable James M. Inhofe
United States Senator, Oklahoma, Republican
Senator Inhofe was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984. He is the ranking minority member of the Committee on the Environment and Public Works. The following is excerpted from an October 27, 2009, statement before a hearing on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act held by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. We are here today to discuss a 923-page bill to fundamentally redesign our $14 trillion economy. The bill is no doubt ambitious, but it’s also extremely costly and ineffective. It is a massive new tax on consumers that will have virtually no…
