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Congress.gov biography:
"INHOFE, James Mountain, a Representative and
a Senator from Oklahoma; born in Des Moines, Iowa, November 17, 1934; attended
public schools in Tulsa, Okla.; B.A., University of Tulsa 1973; served
in the U.S. Army 1957-1958; president, Quaker Life Insurance Company; member,
Oklahoma State house of representatives 1967-1969; State senate 1969-1977;
unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Oklahoma 1974, and for the U. S.
House of Representatives 1976; mayor of Tulsa 1978-1984; elected as a Republican
to the One Hundredth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served
from January 3, 1987, to November 15, 1994, when he resigned, having been
elected to the United States Senate in the November 8, 1994, special election
to the unexpired portion of the term ending January 3, 1997, left vacant
by the resignation of David L. Boren; took the oath of office on November
17, 1994; reelected for a full term in 1996 and again in 2002 for the term
ending January 3, 2009; chair, Committee on Environment and Public Works
(One Hundred Eighth and One Hundred Ninth Congresses)."
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JAMES INHOFE News:
20080627
 David
Vitter -  Larry
Craig -  Sam
Brownback - James
Inhofe -  Gay
-  Family
-  Law
-  Politics
-  La
-  Idaho
-  Kansas
-  Oklahoma
"The
Federal Marriage Amendment is back — with Vitter’s and Craig’s support."
... "Republicans are looking at the political landscape, and they’re feeling
awfully discouraged. The polls look bad, the base looks depressed, and
fundraising looks iffy. Rallying the far-right troops with an anti-gay
amendment to the Constitution — even though it has no chance at even getting
so much as a hearing — might be helpful to the conservative movement."
... "But the funny part is looking over the list of the 10 original sponsors.
Most of the names are predictable — [Kansas Republican Senator Sam] Brownback
and [Oklahoma Republican Senator James] Inhofe, for example — but there
are two others whose names stand out: [Republican Senators] Sens. David
Vitter (R-La. [Republican-Louisiana]) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho [Republican])."
... "Yes, two of the principal sponsors of a constitutional amendment to
“protect” marriage include one far-right Republican who hired prostitutes
and another far-right Republican who was arrested for soliciting gay sex
an airport men’s room." ... "As
my
friend Kyle put it, these two are “not exactly the poster boys of the
family values crowd or particularly upstanding examples of the supposed
sanctity of the ‘union of a man and a woman.”‘" -By
Steve Benen -TheCarpetbaggerReport.com
20080605
 Mitch
McConnell - James
Inhofe -  Gas
-  Emissions
-  Global
- Climate
-  Environment
-  Nevada
-  Kentucky
- Oklahoma
-  US
- Law
- "Republicans
stall climate change bill to punish Reid." ... "When
[Nevada Democratic Senator] Sen. Harry Reid rose to become the majority
leader in 2007, many believed he had met his match in the Republicans’
new Senate leader, [Kentucky Republican Senator] Mitch McConnell of Kentucky."
... "Shrewd parliamentarians both, they brought the prospect of each trying
to outsmart the other on the Senate floor, promising good viewing." ...
"Those skills were on display Wednesday when McConnell brought the Senate
to a standstill." ... "Just as the chamber was about to begin a feisty
debate on the most sweeping effort yet to address climate change, McConnell
shut down the Senate by forcing full reading of the 491-page bill." ...
"Rather than hearing a spirited battle over carbon emissions, gas prices
and new fees for polluters, one lonely clerk after another read page after
page of minutia to a nearly empty chamber." ... "In his own statement,
Reid said: “Republicans are yet again doing everything in their power to
slow, stop and stall. These petty, partisan tactics waste the American
people’s time, and ignoring the crisis of global warming endangers all
of us.”" ... "By early evening, with a few remaining tourists in the gallery
watching the nearly empty floor, Republican [Oklahoma Senator] Sen. James
Inhofe of Oklahoma, the chamber’s leading global warming skeptic, sat in
waiting, prepared to object should Democrats ask for the hours-long reading
to end." -LasVegasSun.com
20080317
-
 John
McCain
-  John
Hagee -  Rod
Parsley -  Rudy
Giuliani -  Pat
Robertson
-  Terrorism
- Politics
-  Military
- Religion
- Race
-  Obama
- 2008
Election - Hurricane
Katrina - New
Orleans - Louisiana
- Oklahoma
- US
-  Israel
- "The
difference between Jeremiah Wright and radical, white evangelical ministers."
... "Ross Douthat and Ezra
Klein are arguing about whether Jeremiah Wright's statements are comparable
to those of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and John Hagee's." ... "The statement
of Wright's which seems to be causing the most upset -- and it's one of
two singled out by Douthat -- is his suggestion that there is a causal
link between (a) America's constant bombings of and other interference
with Middle Eastern countries and (b) the willingness of some Middle Eastern
fanatics to attack the U.S. [United States] Ever since the 9/11 attacks,
we've been told that positing any such causal connection is a sign of vicious
anti-Americanism and that all decent people find such questions despicable.
This week we learned that no respectable person would subject his children
to a pastor who espouses such hateful ideas." ... "But the idea that America
deserves terrorist attacks and other horrendous disasters has long been
a frequently expressed view among the faction of white evangelical ministers
to whom the Republican Party is most inextricably linked. Neither Jerry
Falwell nor Pat Robertson ever retracted or denounced their view that America
provoked the 9/11 attacks by doing things to anger God. John Hagee continues
to believe that the City of New Orleans [Louisiana] got what it deserved
when Katrina drowned its residents and devastated the lives of thousands
of Americans. And [Oklahoma Republican Senator] James Inhofe -- who
happens to still be a Republican U.S. Senator -- blamed
America for the 9/11 attacks by arguing in a 2002 Senate floor speech
that "the spiritual door was opened for an attack against the United States
of America" because we pressured Israel to give away parts of the West
Bank." ... "John Hagee privately
visits with the highest level Middle East officials in the [Republican
President Bush] White House and afterwards pronounces that they're in agreement.
[2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] John McCain shares a
stage with Hagee and lavishes him with praise, as Rudy Giuliani did with
Pat Robertson. James Inhofe remains a member in good standing in the GOP
[GOP=Grand Old Party=Republican] Senate Caucus. The Republican Party has
tied itself at the hip to a whole slew of "anti-American extremists" --
people who believe that the U.S. provoked the 9/11 attacks because God
wants to punish us for the evil, wicked nation we've become -- and yet
there is virtual silence about these associations." ... "Nor have the views
of televangelist Rod Parsley, one of McCain's self-proclaimed "spiritual
advisers," received a fraction of the attention generated by Wright. As
both David
Corn and Alan
Colmes, among others, have documented, Parsley espouses views at least
as extreme and radical as Wright, including his proclamation that "America
was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion
[Islam] destroyed." Unlike Wright and Obama -- for whom the former's
controversial views are found nowhere near the latter's public or private
conduct -- both George Bush and John McCain's Middle Eastern militarism
are perfectly consonant with the most maniacal and crazed views of Christian
Rapture enthusiasts such as Hagee, Parsley, Inhofe, and Robertson. Yet
the controversy created over their close ties is virtually non-existent."
... "The Republican Party long ago adopted as a central strategy aligning
itself with, and granting great influence to, the most radical, "America-hating"
white evangelical Christian ministers in the country."
-By Glenn Greenwald -Salon
20070905
-
Jim
Inhofe - Oklahoma
- Terrorism
-
 Iraq
- US
- Military
- 2008
Election - "State
Senator Running For Inhofe Seat." ... "[Andrew Rice,]
A first-term Democratic state senator from Oklahoma City [Oklahoma's capital]
officially announced Wednesday that he's running for the [2008 Election]
Senate seat occupied by Republican [Oklahoma Senator] Jim Inhofe." ...
"Rice, whose brother was killed in the attack on the World Trade Center
on [September] Sept. 11, 2001, said the race is a personal one for him.
He said he is committed to bringing the troops home and called the decision
to go into Iraq a ``very rash and dangerous thing to do.''" ... "He said
the situation has been too politicized and added that a majority of military
equipment the [United States] U.S. needs to deal with “a real, viable threat''
is in Iraq." ... "``(We are) bogged down in a war in a country that didn't
have anything to do with the murder of my brother,'' Rice said. ``The terrorists
who attacked us on 9/11 are not in Iraq and they never have been.''" ...
"He pledged to be ``an open book'' if elected, and to keep his constituents
informed by posting a daily schedule on his Website." ... "``You should
know who I'm meeting with, who I am having dinner with, you should know
who is giving me money,'' he said." -AP
via KOTV.com
AndrewForOklahoma.com
20070327
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James
Inhofe -
 Al
Gore -  Music
-  Entertainment
- Global
- Climate
-  Science
- Politics
- Environmental
- Legislation
- 
- Earth_Day
-  History
- US
- Okla
- "Inhofe
vows to put brakes on Gore’s ‘Live Earth’ concert at the Capitol."
... "Fresh from his face-to-face tussle with former [Democratic] Vice President
Al Gore, [Oklahoma Republican Senator] Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla. [Republican-Oklahoma])
is vowing to stall Gore’s hotly anticipated Capitol concert to draw attention
to global warming." ... "Inhofe’s belief that climate change is “the greatest
hoax ever perpetrated on the American people” is common knowledge in the
capitol, and environmental groups cheered the new prospects for carbon-capping
legislation when he ceded the Environment and Public Works Committee gavel
this session. But Inhofe’s parliamentary powers can block indefinitely
the resolution that would permit Gore to choose the capitol’s West Front
for the [United States] U.S. leg of his seven-continent Live Earth concert
tour — a collaboration between Gore and promoter Kevin Wall, who masterminded
previous blockbuster charity concerts Live Aid and Live 8." ... "“There
has never been a partisan political event at the Capitol, and this is a
partisan political event,” Inhofe said yesterday." ... "Chad Griffin, an
adviser to Live Earth, was taken aback by Inhofe’s objections to using
the Capitol to promote environmental health. The West Front was used to
inaugurate Earth Day in a 1990 event, for which Gore, a former senator,
sponsored the authorizing resolution." ... "“This is a totally non-partisan
event,” Griffin said[.]" -By Elana Schor
-TheHill.com
20070130
-
James
Inhofe - Noteworthy
- Environmental
- Politics
- Secrets
-
 Federal
- Scientists
- Global
- Climate
-  Investigation
-  People
-  Calif
- Okla
- US
- "Lawmakers
hear global warming 'spin' allegations." ... "Federal
scientists have been pressured to play down global warming, advocacy groups
testified Tuesday at the Democrats' first investigative hearing since taking
control of Congress." ... "The hearing focused on allegations that the
[Republican President] White House for years has micromanaged the government's
climate programs and has closely controlled what scientists have been allowed
to tell the public." ... ""It appears there may have been an orchestrated
campaign to mislead the public about climate change," said [California
Democratic Representative] Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif [Democratic-California].
Waxman is chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee and
a critic of the Bush administration's environmental policies, including
its views on climate." ... "CONTEXT: Global
warming issue gains 'traction' with new Congress" ... "At the House
hearing, two private advocacy groups produced a survey of 279 government
climate scientists showing that many of them say they have been subjected
to political pressure aimed at downplaying the climate threat. Their complaints
ranged from a challenge to using the phrase "global warming" to raising
uncertainty on issues on which most scientists basically agree, to keeping
scientists from talking to the media." ... "The survey and separate interviews
with scientists "has brought to light numerous ways in which U.S. federal
climate science has been filtered, suppressed and manipulated in the last
five years," Francesca Grifo, a senior scientist at the Union of Concerned
Scientists, told the committee." ... "Grifo's group, along with the Government
Accountability Project, which helps whistle-blowers, produced the report."
... "[Henry Waxman:] "We know that the White House possesses documents
that contain evidence of an attempt by senior administration officials
to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming
and minimize the potential danger," said Waxman, adding that he is "not
trying to obtain state secrets."" ... "At [California Democratic Senator
Barbara] Boxer's Senate hearing, her predecessor as chairman of the Environment
and Public Works Committee, [Oklahoma Republican Senator] Sen. James Inhofe,
R-Okla. [Republican-Oklahoma], had his own view of the science." ... "There
is "no convincing scientific evidence" that human activity is causing global
warming, declared Inhofe, who once called global warming a hoax. "We all
know the Weather Channel would like to have people afraid all the time.""
... ""I'll put you down as skeptical," replied Boxer."
-AP via -USATODAY
20070118
-
James
Inhofe - Censorship
- Politics
- Global
- Climate
- Scientists
-
 /Channel- US
- Oklahoma
- "Now
Hold On, People - Sen. James Inhofe vs. The Weather Channel."
... "Was anyone else aware that the Weather Channel has an entire blog,
site, and regular segment devoted
to nothing but climate change?" ... "Or that [United States] U.S. Senators
are now blogging freely on sites carrying the official seal of the United
States Senate, under the auspices of climate change denier [Oklahoma Republican
Senator] James Inhofe, who, ironically, wanted to stop actual scientists
from speaking their mind just as freely as he and his buddies now do?"
... "Or that on said U.S. Senate blog, James Inhofe's "pet weasel" Marc
Morano, the same guy who helped
invent the Swift Boat controversy in his previous incarnation as a
"journalist," has just posted a blog entry accusing [climatologist Heidi]
Dr. Cullen of advocating "Nuremberg-Style Trials for Climate Skeptics"?"
-By Christopher Mims -SciAm.com
20060403
-
James
Inhofe -
 Corporate
- Government
- Environmental
- Science
- Politics
- Okla
- US
- Global
- Planet
- Climate
- Air
- Legislation
- "Senator
Inhofe's Climate Of Confrontation." ... "The Reverend
Richard Cizik is an evangelical Christian and a die-hard Reaganite. So
he was surprised that a closed-door meeting called late last year by conservative
[Oklahoma Republican] Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla. [Republican-Oklahoma])
was all about Cizik's evil deeds. Inhofe called Cizik, government affairs
chief at the National Association of Evangelicals, a liberal wolf in sheep's
clothing. "I sat there with my mouth open," recalls a meeting participant."
... "Cizik's sin? He believes that climate change is a growing problem,
and that Christians have a duty to protect the planet by cutting emissions
of greenhouse gases. In contrast, Inhofe, the chairman of the Senate Environment
& Public Works Committee, has famously derided global warming as a
"hoax." He has been on the offensive against those he considers heretics.
That has left business in doubt about the regulatory environment." ...
"Seeking Tax Records:" ... "Last year, Inhofe demanded six years
of tax and membership records from two groups of state and local air-pollution
control officials after they testified that his proposed clean air legislation
was too weak. On [February] Feb. 7, the day before evangelicals kicked
off a campaign for carbon controls, Inhofe sent a preemptive letter to
senators asserting "there is, in fact, no movement in that direction" among
evangelicals. Now he is requesting information on all employees and projects
at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Inhofe is "using the power
of government and the power of office to threaten," says Donald Kennedy,
editor-in-chief of Science." - By John Carey
-BusinessWeek
20040511
-
James
Inhofe - Torture
- Politician
- US
- Military
- Prisoners
- Photographs
- Iraqi
- Human
Rights - Lawmakers
- Oklahoma
- "GOP
[Republican] senator labels abused prisoners 'terrorists':
Other lawmakers disavow comment." ... "A Republican member of the Senate
Armed Services Committee dismissed Tuesday the outrage over the abuse of
Iraqi prisoners by [United States] U.S. troops, saying Iraqis depicted
in widely broadcast photographs probably had "blood on their hands."" ...
""I'm probably not the only one up at this table that is more outraged
by the outrage than we are by the treatment," [Oklahoma Republican Senator]
Sen. James Inhofe said during a hearing on the [Iraqi] Abu Ghraib prison
scandal. (Full
story)" ... "[Republican] President Bush and other top U.S. officials
and leading Republicans have condemned the abuse of Iraqis held at the
Baghdad[Iraq's capital]-area prison, once a notorious torture chamber under
ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein." ... "Though he [Inhofe] called the
soldiers charged with abusing Iraqi prisoners "seven bad people," he added,
"I am also outraged that we have so many humanitarian do-gooders right
now crawling all over these prisons looking for human rights violations
while our troops, our heroes, are fighting and dying."" -With
contributions by Ed Henry -CNN
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