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

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

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

mr. inhofe: thank you, mr. president. all night long. that's going to be fun. by the way, the oklahoma city thunders aren't playing tonight, so you may get a few more viewers. it's nice to hook over and see probably the most articulate and knowledgeable of all of the alarmists historically as our newest senator, ed markey from massachusetts. i have had the enjoyable time of -- you know, it can be good friends and still disagree. certainly, the senator from rhode island knows that because we had a little disagreement last week, and certainly the senator from california, even though she is not smiling -- i guess you are smiling tonight. anyway, this has been a long, long time that we have been working on this. it started with the kyoto treaty. i think most people have forgotten about that when during the clinton-gore administration, when gore came back to where was it in california -- in south america, they came up with this thing? rio de janeiro, that's right. came back and said oh, we're all going to die. global warming is coming. i would say this -- he knows w

let me respond to that, mr. inhofe's views by saying the following. climate change is real and there is no longer a scientific debate about that. in the words of the u.s. global change research program, which includes e.p.a., nasa, the national science foundation and the departments of defense, energy, state, health, interior, transportation and commerce, i quote, global warming is unequivocal and primarily human induced, end of quote. that is not my view. that is not senator boxer's view. it is not senator schatz's view. that is the view of the u.s. global change research program, which includes some of the major agencies of the united states government. and by the way, clearly it is not just the united states government or agencies that believe that. there are agencies representing virtually every country on earth who have come to the same conclusion. now, when some people say, mr. president, well, there is debate, the evidence is not yet clear. the scientific community is not quite sure, let me clear the air on that one. according to a study publis

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

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. burr: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from north carolina. mr. burr: mr. president, i rise in strong support of the amendment. i urge my colleagues, this is a reasonable improvement to the bill, and i think senator franken stated it very well. this amendment increases the amount of ccdbg funding set aside for tribes from not more than 2% to not less than 2%. sounds like a big difference -- or not much of a difference. but this has a tremendous impact on the predictability of tribes, the dollars that are going to be available to them. so i would urge my colleagues to support the franken-murkowski amendment. i yield the floor. mr. harkin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: i just want to join with senator burr in supporting the amendment. the presiding officer: the question occurs on amendment 2812. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote? if not, the ayes are 98, the nays are

. >> 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

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

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

. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this morning, in the stars and stripes this morning, there was a good article, and i ask now it's made a part of the record. it talks about what's happening to our capabilities in that area. admiral, you're quoted here saying the resource is currently at your disposal are insufficient to meet operational requirements, and i appreciate that statement. admiral, it's my understanding that 50% of our navy's 300 ship were expected to be in the pacific theater initially; is that right? >> well, we've had about 50% for historically for a number of years, and -- >> okay. it didn't take a long answer here. as part of the reambulance now, they talk about they would expect that to go up so it's around 180 rather than 150. this is the point i'm trying to get. because of what's happening now in sequestering coming, it would be 60% of the a smaller number of coming out with the same number of ships available in that theater of 150. you follow me here? >> i follow you, yes, sir. >> what lookout our

mr. inhofe: and he has been a capitol hill professional staff member for a long time. he actually was on the house budget committee for a long period of time. then he was a special assistant to our senator thad cochran. this has been some time ago. joe served as the army assistant secretary, then the acting secretary of the army. that was 2001. and then as the 30th army secretary for the past 35 years. he is a good friend of mine much what's different about him -- there are a lot of people that have a career, have a background in academia. but the ones who have shown that they also have a heart, they have a reason for what they're doing, and they have a love for using the position that they hold to help other people, and that's what joe westfall has done for a long period of time. i no that he when he was under secretary -- i think he was actually acting secretary of the army when we were down together in southern oklahoma, fort sill, outside of lawton, oklahoma, in the southwestern part of the state. and we had a school -- two schools down there. one was called jee in