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

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

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