mr. inhofe: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent i be allowed to speak until the arrival of the senator from alabama, senator sessions. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: mr. president, the subject today, of course, is the failed foreign policy of this president and this administration and it's really hard to do it in a limited period of time because once something happens like benghazi and we get into the middle of that thing, then all of a sudden you turn around and this president turns loose arguably the five most heinous terrorists from -- from gitmo, at the same time we have a policy that was going so well in iraq and now we find out that that's not working out either. if i have time i'll touch on that. the first thing i want to do is mention this benghazi thing. being the rab be on the armed services committee, i had the opportunity there and be there, it happens that charles stevens, the ambassado

mr. inhofe: thank you very much. i object. mrs. boxer: thank you. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mrs. shaheen: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new hampshire. mrs. shaheen: thank you. let me just say that i'm disappointed to hear that we can't move forward in a way that i think would address both the concern about voting on the keystone pipeline as well as the concern that senator portman and i have to have consideration of the shaheen-portman energy efficiency bill. shaheen-portman is legislation that would go very far to address our energy needs. after all, energy efficiency is the first fuel. it's the cheapest, fastest way to deal with this country's energy needs. it's something that has support from those people who believe in sphiewms and from those -- those people who believe in fossil fuels and those people who believe in alternatives like wind and solar. it's something that everybody benefits from and it's something that would move us in a direction that would help address the pollution that we're seeing not

mr. inhofe: i've got to get to the last part. rather than to face these issues head on, i'm going to share with you something that happened last -- it was last year and then again this year. there is a very wealthy person named tom steyer. tom steyer has a mansion that overlooks the golden gate bridge. he had a fund-raiser for barack obama last year, raising a lot of money. but what i'm more concerned about is the fund-raiser that he had when he announced -- this is just in the last month -- tom steyer, very wealthy person, said he was going to personally donate $50 million and raise an additional $50 million to try to do two things. one, to resurrect this whole idea on global warming since the people don't care about it anymore. and as a result of that we had an all-night vigil. remember that? that was right after tom steyer made his announcement. the second thing that he's mandating is to kill the keystone pipeline. there's a lot of money out there. the regulatory burdens already being placed on this country are enormous. the c

mr. inhofe: how much time is remaining on our side? the presiding officer: 33 minutes is remaining on the republican side buy but the request for the colloquy time has expired. mr. inhofe: i ask unanimous consent i be given four more minutes. the presiding officer: is there objection? the senator from california. mrs. boxer: what time do we have a veto here? the presiding officer: 4:30. mrs. boxer: the reason we were careful with our time and we gave my good friends, and they are my good friends, a lot of extra time, i'll allow the senator to proceed for a minute but after that we need equal time on this. i give him one minute. the presiding officer: without objection, the senator has asked for four minutes. mrs. boxer: i approve one minute. ms. inhofe: could we compromise at two minutes. mrs. boxer: let me think it over. okay. the presiding officer: without objection. two minutes. mr. inhofe: i thank my good friend from california for thinking that over. i want to mention 432,000 direct jobs. and when you stop and think about it, keep

mr. inhofe: thank you, madam president. it's been 22 days now since hamas has began its most recent campaign of terrorism attacks against the innocent citizens of israel. since the operation began, 32 tunnels have been uncovered that would have been used to attack israel. on saturday and sunday, this past saturday and sunday alone, almost 100 rockets were fired at israel. in the gaza strip since the beginning of operation protective eagle -- that would have been july 8 -- there have been over 2,000 hamas rockets fired into israel with tel aviv and jerusalem both in the target. israel has responded as any nation protecting its people with airstrikes and ground strikes to silence these hamas terrorists. you know, the israelis are tough. i just have to remind people all the time that since their independence back in the 1940's, they've been attacked -- israel has been attacked six different times, and we remember how they were outnumbered in the six-day war in 1967, and they won, they prevailed. then again the same thing, i do

mr. inhofe: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: what is the general order right now? the presiding officer: the time between now and 12:30 is equally divided and the republicans control five minutes. mr. inhofe: i ask unanimous consent i be recognized for five minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: let's say for eight minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: than inhofe all: al. thank you very much. madam president, later this week we're going to have the e.p.a. administrator come to our environment and public works committee to testify about the greenhouse gas rule being developed for existing fleets of power plants. now, we know what the rule is for the new power plants. this is for the existing. in light of that, it's important to point out that the senate has been debating global warming for well over a decade, actually around 14 years now. the first cap and trade bill the senate debated was when republicans were in the majority. i was chairman at that time, madam president,

. >> thank you very much, senator inhofe. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i ask you turn the mouse over. this is just for reference. we put this together with the help of the military, the colors represented their come of orange is what is under isil control right now. the gray would he the kurdish controlled and that brown would be the ambitions of isil. do you look at that map and find any problem? >> actually senator, in terms of their ambition, i think that is probably understating. if left unaddressed, they would aspire to restore the agent kingdom of the schaub, which includes the current state of israel and runs all the way down to kuwait. >> we are trying to be conservative on this. it does people know this is a big area in secretary hagel, do you have a problem with this? >> know, general dempsey stated it exactly right. >> okay, according to the reports from u.s. intelligence agencies believe they isil does not represent the immediate threat to the united states. daniel benjamin was the top counterterrorism adviser during his first or third number

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, it's my understanding that senator bennet is going to be due here shortly. i should be through by that time so i ask unanimous consent that i take senator cornyn's time, about 15 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: mr. president, in january of 2014 may go down in record as the coldest of the months in united states history. between the polar vortex storms of last we're freezing temperatures much of the nation experienced cold weather and records, at least once or twice. and this has been going on now for the last three years. so while we won't have official nationwide temperature data for january for a few more weeks, we do have preliminary figures. throughout the entire month over 2,387 daily cold temperature records were set around opportunity, many of those were in my state of oklahoma. at least 49 of these daily records occurred on january 6 and 7 when the first round of the pole har vortex hit. polar vortex hit. yesterday in tulsa it went dow

mr. inhofe: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: mr. president, i read with a lot of interest the trip to china that was made b by -- by president obama and meeting with president shix, over what they characterized as an agreement on greenhouse gas emissions. i didn't hear any kind of agreement from anything that was said by the president of china. and they have been talking about this as historic breakthrough. un, that's exactly what -- you know, that's exactly what they said in 2009 back when copenhagen was the center stage for the big annual party so that people are aware of what goes on, once a year the united nations throws a big party trying to get countries to agree to reduce their greenhouse gases by certain amounts to come in. it's kind of interesting, one of the first ones i went to, i saw a good friend of mine from benin in north africa, and i said, you guys aren't getting sucked into that, i know that for sure, in terms of a reduction in greenhouse gases. what would happen in north africa if did you that? and he said, of cou

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. 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

mr. inhofe: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: mr. president, first let me thank my good friend, the chairman of the committee, senator levin. and it's true, we work so closely together, not just the two of us, but our staff directors, the minority and majority staff. it is just rare that we have a difference of opinion. when we do, we sit down and work things out, debate them, and g.e.d. things done -- and get things done. so there's a reason that when senator levin said that we have passed this bill for 52 consecutive years -- you know, there are a lot of bills that hit the floor. some are important, some are not. some are more important to certain members than others. this is one that's important to everybody. there's not one -- ther senatoro doesn't want to pass a defense authorization bill. when he mentioned that it passed by 25-1, we've been ready to go since that time and that's why we're encouraging people and have been encourage people to bring amendments down. let me mention that i personally went, as did senator levin, to b

mr. inhofe: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: first of all, let me thank my good friend for yielding. i think we will have several people coming down and talking about this tonight. i want to say something about senator sanders from vermont. i appreciate very much his -- his comments. i think that they were -- let me get this here. i think that they were very, very appropriate, and i remember one time when he and hi a -- i had a difference of opinion on an amendment. it had to do with the amount of money that one of the large oil companies made. he and i debated on the floor for something like three hours. a vote was taken, and after that -- i did win the vote. afterwards, he came up to me and he said i want you to know that since i have been here from the house, that was probably the most enlightened debate that we have ever had. you won and i lost. i really do appreciate it. we have been very good friends since then. well, the comments he made are real because i don't have any doubt in my mind that senator sanders and t

inhofe: mr. presiden, there are a few of us who wanted to come down and talk about specific things in our state that are reaching a crisis point by having to have -- participate in obamacare, but before doing that i want to make just one comment to make sure it's in the record that we can talk about the election that took place over in afghanistan. you know, we've had quite a time over there. we've lost actually 2,197 of our own troops in afghanistan, and we've injured about ten times that many. so it's just -- it's been a real crisis for a lot of people for a long period of time. things have been going good, and i think that when the decision was made by this president to pull everything out at the -- at a given time, things started turning around a little bit, and now they're in the middle of -- in afghanistan the election that took place, i know that we're not supposed to say this. there's no official position. i want to make that clear -- by the united states of america. but to me there are t

mr. inhofe: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. inhofe: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call in progress be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: i ask i be recognized as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: mr. president, it came -- i came to the floor to talk about china's inability to keep its promise with the united states. you know, we had someone go over there, of course, the president talked to president xi and they gave the assurances that certain things were going to happen and i've always said and for quite some time i've had occasion to visit with the chinese, a lot of them are hoping we would restrict things in this country so that the only place they can go to get power would be places like china, india, mexico and all that. but one of their -- the promise, but a statement made by the president of china was they would stop increasing their emissions by 2030. but it's impossible to

mr. president i promise you there will be another president with different policies and the next time it may not be immigration laws but tax laws our environmental or labor laws. and i fervently believe we need tax reform in environmental reform but there is a proper way to do it is this body making legislative changes through lot? not one president is setting aside the lot. a presidential temper tantrum is not and acceptable means of discourse. one of the characteristics of the monarchy is he or she need not compromise. the president has justified the legal amnesty by saying he told congress would you wanted and between the president and congress they do not get the demand of congress here is the policy and want to give me what i want your i will decree it to be so. but let me be clear. we need common sense immigration reform i support common-sense immigration reform. you have to work with the other branches and compromise. this is the president barely willing to talk to congress led alo

mr. inhofe: let me reclaim my time to make one other comment. the two people sitting down with us, peter levine on our side and john bonzel on our side, their compatibility in working together is also kind of unprecedented. it doesn't happen very often. and i can't speak for you, senator levin, but i can speak for me, that without these two working together, i sure could not have done -- participated in a meaningful way. so i want to thank them. mr. levin: well, you are speaking for both of us, i can assure you, with that comment and so many other things that you've said. and i think at this point, unless there's someone else who wishes to be recognized? i yield the floor. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. levin: would the senator yield for just one second? i just want to thank him for the great contribution that he has made to our committee. i know he's not going to -- i think he's planning on speaking on a different subject, in which case he's played a major role on the intelligence committee and

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

quorum call: mr. coons: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. coons: i ask that proceedings under the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coons: madam president, i come to the floor today my heart heavy with a challenging task which is to convey to you the remarkable, the special, the powerful spirit of a friend who passed just three weeks ago in a tragic accident in india. matt haley was a remarkable delawarean. matt haley was a gifted and accomplished chef and entrepreneur. matt haley was someone who touched so many lives in my home state of delaware. in 2012, matt won the delaware restaurant association's cornerstone award, a lifetime achievement award recognizing restauranteurs who dedicate their lives to humanitarian effort. matt owned eight different restaurants all across the beach region so well-known to folks here in washington. matt owned restaurants in rehobeth beet, lewis, ocean view, bethany beach, feighanwicd was involve

. >> thank you, senator inhofe. mr. hagel. >> we appreciate -- >> we are asking you again to sit down and if not, we are going to ask you the leave. no, thank you for -- would you please now leave? would you please now leave? i am asking you the now leave. you are acting very war-like yourse yourself. >> no more war. no military boots into this. no more war. no military solution. >> thank you. mr. secretary. >> mr. chairman, as i was saying, chairman dempsey and i very much appreciate the opportunity this morning to discuss the president's strategy to degrade and ultimately defeat isil. as you know, you all know today that president obama is in atlanta meeting with cdc officials regard iing the ebola crisis, and then will travel tonight to tampa to receive a briefing from the commander of u.s. central command general austin on operational plans to implement his isil strategy. i will join the president tomorrow in tampa for that briefing. the defense department civilian and military leaders are in complete agreement that

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. chairman, senator inhofe, thank you for your continued support and your partnership. thank you. >> thank you very much. secretary hagel. thank you. would you please leave. would you please leave the room now. we're asking you nicely. we're asking you nicely to please leave the room. we're asking you nicely, would you please leave the room. thank you. we asked you the last time. thank you very much. thank you for leaving. >> don't drag us into another war. >> we want to ask all of you to avoid these kind of outbursts. they're not doing anybody any good including hearing what the testimony is. they're not doing you and whatever your cause is any good either. thank you very much. would you please -- i'm asking you nicely to please leave the room. we're asking you again. thank you very much. goodbye. thank you. general dempsey. general dempsey -- thank you, chairman and ranking member inhofe. members of the committee, i appreciate the opportunity to appear before you this morning. secretary hagel described in detail the elements of our strategy against isil. the role the

inhofe: mr. president, the -- i have to say this: that the resolution by senator klobuchar truly demonstrates the vast political influence of the president's global warming advocates, what they've been doing over time. you know, this is not something that's new. this is something that started in this chamber, oh, late see, about 15 years ago, at the time the clinton-gore effort took place down in south america. it wassen signed on to the -- it was sign the on to the treaty down there. it never came up to be ratified. but the resolution cited 13 different government agencies that are colluding together to merge their policies to promote global warming, which underscores how effective the environmental activists like tom steyer has been at getting their agenda into the obama administration. while some democrats may be convinced that global warming is continuing to occur, the scientific record does not agree. in fact, for the past 15 years tefns across the -- temperatures across the globe have not i

mr. inhofe: thank you madam president. i -- i think we're going to have a lot of discussions on the floor concerning a number of things that have happened in the last couple of weeks not the least of which is what's going on in the antarctica right now the fact that some people had to be lifted out. it's kind of interesting. and i -- i don't want anyone to misunderstand that i am reviving a lot of the previous interest in the global warming thing for any reason other than the fact that right now after it has been determined without any -- any doubt that the sentiment in the house and the senate would never pass anything like cap and trade but the problem is this president is now doing through regulation what he could not do through legislation and that is the -- that's the expense that i am concerned about. you know, we -- in a minute i want to talk about the cost of these things, but we have a real serious problem in this -- in this country. people are concerned about the spending they're concerned about what's happening

general welsh. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ranking member inhofe and members of the commit yeah. it's an honor to be here. mr. chairman, might i add from all the men and women of the air force, thank you for your distinguished service to this country. you're a statesman, sir and have the respect anded a mr. asia of everybody on this panel. >> thank you. >> for the past 23 years the united states marin hey maintained an extremely high tempo in the middle east. nonstop sense desert storm ended in 1991 and performed speck tackily well and you have been supportive of increasing their pay and benefits. today we're in a -- last year, our readiness levels reached an all-time low. ace we struggled to recover, we don't have enough units ready to responsible immediately to a major contingency and we're not always able to provide fully mission ready ewans to meet rotational requirements. our modernization forecasts are bleak. roughly 20% of our aircraft were bill in the 1950s and 60s and half were built more than 25 areas ago and now due to sequestration we cut 50 part of our current plans

mr. inhofe: i appreciate that. i appreciate the senator from texas yielding at this time. every time i hear people talk about the jobs that are at stake here, i think about my state of oklahoma per capita probably has more jobs in the state than any other state does because we are -- cushing, oklahoma, is the crossroads of the pipeline throughout america. this chart right here -- just over two years ago president obama dame t came to cushing toa speech. you can see the tubes there, talking about how this is a major breakthrough that we're going to -- quote -- "cut through the red tape, break through bureaucratic hurdles and make this project a priority, to go ahead and get it done." that's his quote right there. yet he's done nothing but obstruct this ever since that tiesm the southern leg of the pipeline may be finished but that was part of the project the president dissents hav didn't hy in. the president could do something when you cross international lines but he could not do it from that point south. it is completely stalled because the president has delayed making a

senator inhofe. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would ask that you turn the maps over. this is just for reference. we put this together with the help of the military, with the help of some think tanks and, the colors represented there, the orange would be what is under isil control right now. the, the gray would be the kurdish control and then the brown would be the ambitions of isil. do you, look at that map and find any problem with it, either one of you? >> actually, senator, in terms of their mission i think that is probably understating the mission. >> yeah. >> i think if left unaddressed they would aspire to restore the ancient kingdom which includes the current state of israel and runs all the way down to kuwait. >> we're trying to be conservative on this, to let people know. this is a big area and it is a major, secretary hagel, you have a problem with this? >> no. i think general dempsey stated it exactly right. >> right. okay, the according to some of the reports that the u.s. intelligence agencies believe that isil does not represent the immediate threat to t

mr. chairman, i think everyone on this committee understands fully this will not be an easy or a brief effort. it is complicated. we are at war with isil as we are with al qaeda. but destroying isil will require more than military efforts alone. it will require political progress in the region and effective partners on the ground in iraq and syria. as the congress and the administration work together, we know this effort will take time. the president has outlined a clear, comprehensive, and workable strategy to achieve our goals and protect our interests. mr. chairman, senator inhofe, thank you for your continued support and that of this committee and your partnership. thank you. >> thank you very much secretary hagel. >> thank you, would you please leave the room now? we're asking you nicely. we're asking you nicely to please leave the room. we're asking you nicely. please leave the room. thank you. we're asking you for the last time. thank you very much. >> it's the u.s.'s intervention.

thank you, mr. chairman. i agree with the comments you made. i want to address that, but i am concerned as everyone is about our national security. two weeks your returned from a trip to africa, afghanistan sought south asia, europe. it is clear from talking to troops, diplomats that the global security environment is complex and growing more dangerous every day. it stating last year before congress, in almost a 50 years and intelligence i do not remember when we have had a more diverse array of threats in crisis situations to deal with. based on the we have seen since a think you're exactly right. the reality is our national security is worse than ten years ago. around the world we're seeing trips to our security rice from the middle east to africa, east asia. allies to not trust us, and enemies of fierce. in iran the agreement has done nothing to stop the regime in richmond activities. in fact, i am willing to submit for the record the reuters -- date successfully test fired missiles. the defense

mr. chairman, senator inhofe, thank you for your continued support and partnership. thank you. >> thank you very much, secretary hagel. thank you, would you please leave the room now? we're asking you nicely. we're asking you nicely to please leave the room. look, we're asking you nicely. would you please leave the room. thank you. we'll ask you for the last time. thank you very much. thank you for leaving. as soon as the noise is removed from the room, wild ae would as of you to avoid these kind of outbursts. they are are's not doing anybody any good including hearing the system and they're not doing you and whatever your cause is very good either. thank you very much. would you please -- i'm asking you nicely to please leave the room. we're asking you again please remove this gentleman. thank you very much. good-bye. thank you. general dempsey. general dempsey. >> chathank you chairman. members of the committee, i do appreciate the opportunity to appear before you this morning. secretary hagel has described in detail the elements of our strategy against isil, the r

senator inhofe. >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you for holding this hearing. i think it's important for us to conduct oversight. we need to be hearing from epa and those affected by the role which includes utilities and consumers the manufactures the minors and others. we need the records were put the whole picture of this rule and we need to hear from experts on electricity reliability like ferc and nerc. during his time in office personnel bomb has pursued a systematic strategy for using the government to take over major sectors of the economy starting with obamacare and nationalize the health care system and onto dodd-frank and making bank bailouts a permanent fixture in american society. now we have the first round of the global warming regulations which would nationalize the electricity market and force americans to live out the presidents green dream. we don't have to look any further than obama is model germany to see where that path leads her to think senator vitter covered this well. the fact that they are trying to get out from under them as they are

mr. chairman, senator inhofe, thank you for your continued support and partnership. thank you. >> thank you very much, secretary hagel. thank you, would you please leave the room now? we're asking you nicely. we're asking you nicely to please leave the room. look, we're asking you nicely. would you please leave the room. thank you. we'll ask you for the last time. thank you very much. thank you for leaving. as soon as the noise is removed from the room, wild ae would as of you to avoid these kind of outbursts. they are are's not doing anybody any good including hearing the system and they're not doing you and whatever your cause is very good either. thank you very much. would you please -- i'm asking you nicely to please leave the room. we're asking you again please remove this gentleman. thank you very much. good-bye. thank you. general dempsey. general dempsey. >> chathank you chairman. members of the committee, i do appreciate the opportunity to appear before you this morning. secretary hagel has described in detail the elements of our strategy against isil, the r

mr. chairman, senator inhofe, thank you for your continued support and partnership. thank you. >> thank you very much, secretary hagel. thank you, would you please leave the room now? we're asking you nicely. we're asking you nicely to please leave the room. look, we're asking you nicely. would you please leave the room. thank you. we'll ask you for the last time. thank you very much. thank you for leaving. as soon as the noise is removed from the room, wild ae would as of you to avoid these kind of outbursts. they are are's not doing anybody any good including hearing the system and they're not doing you and whatever your cause is very good either. thank you very much. would you please -- i'm asking you nicely to please leave the room. we're asking you again please remove this gentleman. thank you very much. good-bye. thank you. general dempsey. general dempsey. >> chathank you chairman. members of the committee, i do appreciate the opportunity to appear before you this morning. secretary hagel has described in detail the elements of our strategy against isil, the r

so it looks like, mr. chairman, that this is it. thank you. ch. >> thank you, senator inhofe. >> secretary levin, chairman dempsey and i very much appreciate the opportunity. okay -- we're asking you to again please sit down, and if not, we're asking you to leave. thank you for -- would you please now leave? would you please now leave? you're acting war like yourself. >> no more war. the american public does not want war. does not want war. no more war. no more war! no more war! no military solution. >> thank you. >> secretary. >> mr. chairman, as i was saying. chairman dempsey and i very much appreciate the opportunity this morning to discuss the president's strategy to degrade and ultimately defeat isil. as you know, you all know, today president obama is in atlanta meeting with cdc officials regarding the ebola crisis, and then will travel tonight to tampa to receive a briefing from the commander of u.s. central command, general austin on operational plans to implement his isil strategy. i'll join the president tomorrow in tampa for that br

thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you so much, senator inhofe. and we turn to -- let's see. who is next? senator booker. >> first of all, i want to say thank you to the ranking member and to the chairwoman for this opportunity. this is my first hearing on this committee. it is a privilege and honor to be here, especially with committed activists on both sides of the aisle who have a passionate concern for our country. it's an honor to be here as i begin my senate career. chairwoman, it was a long time ago that i was the mayor of new jersey's largest city. that's back in october. what frustrated me is i am a guy who believes very strongly in the power of markets, in the power of private enterprise and industry to help poor communities, creating jobs, creating economic activity, lifting people up. that's the idea of this country. but what i get frustrated with about being a mayor, having been a mayor, i look at the landscape of my city and frankly the landscape of the state of new jersey is that we have it backwards in our history about what it means to do private enterprise.

mr. levin: leaf mr. president, on tuesday evening, senator inhofe and i announced that we had reached agreement with the chairman and the ranking member of the house armed services committee on a new national defense authorization act bill for fiscal year 2015. the text of the bill and report were published on the web site of the house rules committee that evening and on tuesday -- on wednesday morning we put out a press release detailing the provisions of the bill. the bill passed the house earlier this afternoon by a vote of 300 to 119 and we expect to take it up in the senate next week. our bill includes hundreds of important provisions to authorize the activities of the department of defense and provide for the well-being of our men and women in uniform and their families. the bill will enable the military services to continue paying special pays and bonuses which are needed for recruitment and retention of key personnel. it provides continued impact aid to support military families and local school

so thank you mr. chairman, i appreciate this good hearing. >> thank you, senator. senator inhofe? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have to tell you senator sessions my wife's upset because the deer are eating her begonias. you know my wife well enough to know if she's not happy, i'm not happy. so i've got a stake in this. first of all, i'm glad clay pope is here from oklahoma. i appreciate your coming. clay you and i have worked together with frank lucas on some of our small dam rehabilitation projects, and i look forward to hearing your testimony. although i've already read it, and won't be able to stay for it. that doesn't mean i don't love you anyway. all right. this is -- all we talk about around here since he became chairman of this committee is trying to resurrect, trying to make people believe the world is coming to an end. this is the 31st, 31st hearing this committee's had, this committee i'm talking about the whole committee now, on global warming, since senator boxer came in as chairman, and with each one, the polling data has declined. i mean, it started off where it was

. >> the man mr. obama who's bringing up al qaeda was the same candidate who had said al qaeda was on the run. well, it turns out, senator inhofe was correct all along, but this white house wouldn't listen to him. just as they dismissed romney's russia worries and the words of sarah palin. one thing for the president to not listen to inhofe, palin and romney, another to not listen from such mistakes. let's see if president obama has listened and learned. >>> some top comments -- raffle says -- >>> p.j. in arizona -- thank you, i didn't believe that anyone was ever gog to say anything about mexico's responsibility for the illegal immigrants in this country. keep saying it, lou. >>> and skully tweeted, what does obama have in his arsenal against russia? his pen and phone and tell prompter? heavily armed and dangerous. keep those comments coming. we're giving away copies of my new book to comments we read. follow us on twitter and go to our facebook page. our facebook page. that's it for louÑ@ç@çpçp

thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate this good hearing. >> thank you, senator. senator inhofe. >> i have to tell you, senator sessions, my wife is upset because he dear are eating her begonias. if she's not happy, i'm not happy, so i've got a stake in this. first of all, i'm glad that clay pope is here. you and i have worked together with frank lucas on some of our small rehabilitation projects and look forward to hearing your testimony although with all of you that it. that doesn't mean i don't love you anyway. all we talk about around here since barbara boxer became chairman of this committee is trying to resurrect, trying to make people believe the world is coming to an end. this is the 31st hearing this committee of five. talking about the whole committee on global warming since senator boxer came in as chairman and with each one, the polling data has declined. it started off with number one or number two issue. the last gallup poll said number 14 out of 15. i'd have to say i know oklahoma's global warming regulations are no friend of farmers. it is interest

senator inhofe. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have to tell you, senator sessions, that my wife is up jet because the deer are eating her begonias and you know my wife well enough to know, if she's not happy, i'm not happy, so i have got a stake in this. first of all, i'm glad clay pope is here from oklahoma. i appreciate you're coming. clay, you and i have worked together with frank lucas on some of our small dam rehabilitation projects and looking forward to hearing your testimony, although i have already read it and it won't be able to stay for it. that doesn't mean i don't love you anyway, all right? this is -- all we talk about around here since barbara boxer became chairman of this committee is trying to resurrect, trying to make people leave that the world is coming to an end. this is the 31st, 31st hearing this committee has had, this committee, i'm talking about the whole committee now, on global warming since senator boxer came in as chairman, and with each one the polling data has declined. i mean, it started off it w

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

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