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, 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 all know and talked about this the world is getting more dangerous in the pacific. they continue to engage in actions including military exercises, nuclear and missile tests and the development of a rogue mobile missile system. china declares identification zones and makes moves to blockade ships and claim sovereignty over vast tracks of the south china sea. despite the growing danger, the massive cuts to our national security budget, making the jobs of the admiral and the general more difficult. while the chinese defense budget rose 12%, secretary hagel tells his command america's dominance in the seas, skies and space can no longer be taken granted. first time i have heard that. diversion of resources from the defense to the president's domestic agenda. over the last five years and that has consequences in our society, less capable and less dominant forces make it more difficult for our men and women in uniform to handle crises. less capable u.s. military makes it more

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

. >> 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

. >> 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

. >> 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 going 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 lou predicting

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