mr. coburn: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. coburn: i thank senator blunt. i did not get to hear all of senator inhofe's comments but as an oklahoman, we couldn't have a finer company or a finer corporate citizen than the greene family in terms of their chains of stores around the country and in what they've do done. the reason they're successful is because they actually care, nurture and support every one of their employees. and they work on some principles that they -- they truly believe in, and it's really been the key to their success. they're never open on the sabbath. they believe you pay somebody a livable wage. they're big in the community. as a matter of fact, some of the largest contributors to organizations that are funded in the charitable realm that go down deep to actually help people. so they come with pure motives. the senator from missouri mentioned thomas jefferson. here's what he said in 1809. "no provision in our constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against

mr. inhofe: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: i enjoyed very much the remarks of the senator from florida. he's very much concerned about this, very much plugged into the situation with what's happening in the ukraine, and i just would like to make a couple comments about that from a little slightly different perspective. that is, that -- and my current position is the ranking member on the senate armed services committee. 0en that on that you take one pf this proposal, that is the money coming out of the military to take care of a problem that the military should not have to take care of at a time when things are really serious. now, the i.m.f. has always the relief it needs to meet its borrowing needs. the i.m.f. does not need additional u.s. funds to help ukraine. it does not make sense to double the size of the i.m.f. by are ratifying a 2010 agreement paying for -- with money that can be used for d.o.d. to address the shortfalls, which i am going to talk about. by the way, there is another option out there, because th

. >> senator inhofe. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we expressed many times our concern about iran and the threat that they pose to us, and that our intelligence and classified intelligence as far back as 2007 indicated that they would have a capability of a weapon, or delivery system by 2015, then it was even more forcefully expressed in an report that was unclassified by our intelligence in 2010, reaffirming their suspicions are earlier. so i have been concerned about that for a long period of time, i'm concerned that a president that some of thinks there's an opportunity to get them to join the global community and reform their ways. in a recent "wall street journal" article, suggesting the iranians were able to successfully infiltrate the navy network. the federally 17th article racist series questions suggesting iran was able to access the bloodstream of the navy network. i'm going to quote from that report. iran's infiltration of a navy computer network was far more extensive than previously thought. it took the navy about four m

senator inhofe. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we have expressed our concern about iran and the threats they oppose to us and that our intelligence and classified intelligence as far back as 2007 np indicated they would have a capability by 2015 with a wep within delivery and it was more expressed in a report classified by intelligence in 2010 refirming their suspicious thoughts earlier. i have been concerned about that. we have a president that thinks there is an opportunity to get them to join the global economy and reform their way. it is said they were able to infiltrate the computer network and raising questions they were able to access the blood stream of the navy network. i am going to quote from the report. quote iran's navy hacking was extensive. it took four months to purge them from the biggest unclassified network. if true, such an attack would be profound but it is unclear, what, if anything, the ad munstration would do in response to such behavior. would a similar penetration by war planes be treated with ambivalence

mr. inhofe: mr. president, i spoke last night in anticipation of this all-night session that was going to take place and i wasn't surprised at the general topics that were covered. there were probably five altogether but they were stated over and over and over again. and i would like just to clarify a couple things that probably are worthwhile this morning. one is, my good friend from california -- and this is a quote, and we took it down -- said, "when 97% to 98% of the scientists say something is real, they don't have anything pressing them to say that other than the truth. they don't have any other agenda. they don't work for oil companies. and i will tell you as chairman of the environment committee, every time the republicans chose a so-called expert on climate, we have tracked them down to special interest funding. those 3%, they know where their bread is buttered." that's kind of an interesting and a timely statement to make because what they're not telling you, and i'm talking about the senat

mr. inhofe: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. >> madam president?ma. >> senator from oklahoma. >> when the majority leader said congress can't stand by and not do anything, i have to remind them we have been doing this for quite some time. we have been working on the problem of sexual assaults. the reality is congress has been aggressive in instituting reforms to tackle the sexual assault in the military since '09 with the defense authorization act has enacted 47 provisions directly dealing with this or dealing with efforts to improve allegations of misconduct and they have strengthen the protection of the victims while preserving the rights of the accused. they are vital to assure a fair military justice system. i look at the bill that we are considering that will be coming up in a short while and the bill modifies the way i see the problems. in january a letter to the department sighted technical problems and i will quote from the letter quote potentially not able to be reconciled and if conviction results it would it could result in years of more

i would now like to defer the colloquy to senator inhofe. mr. inhofe: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: madam president, when the majority leader a minute ago said congress cannot idly stand by and not do anything, i -- i have to remind him that we have been doing this for quite some time. we have been working on this, the problem of sexual assaults. the reality is that congress has been aggressive in instituting reforms to tackle the sexual assault in the military since fiscal year 2009, the defense authorization act, we have enacted 47 provisions, either directly addressing sexual assault or instituting reforms to the uniform code of military justice that will improve efforts to address allegations of misconduct. now, these reforms have strengthened the protections and the care of the victims while preserving the rights of the accused. these historic reforms are vital to ensuring the sound and effective and fair military justice system. now, i -- i look at the -- the bill that we are considering that will be coming up in a

we appreciate it. >> senator inhofe. >> thank you, mr. chairman. you heard make your reservation of snowden in my opening remarks. you agree with? >> i do. >> i do. >> someone would turn over their charter for they. we have developed a chart reaction to both of you. even over this yesterday with some of ours that. if for the benefit of those appear, we have copies. if you look at the peak they are, that would've been at end of the cold war, we started dropping down her nuclear modernization program. it is fairly level until getting into the current apiary right now. you see the little hump there that would be necessary in order to get this new icbm, new sub launch -- have you had a chance to look at this chart? that is what our needs are now, admiral haney, the accuracy of this charter. >> senator inhofe, i have saved this chart and what i think is unique about the chart is it really gives a great presentation at the history of funding that we have invested in our strategic deterrent and also gives even beyond an approximation of what requires to b