dangers here seem to qualify but starkly grabs it instead an ace in the hole oklahoma senior senator jim inhofe steer the environmental and public works committee in the senate this committee over seas and directs the e.p.a. and inhofe oversaw the committee as far as environmental buyout money goes in off was the faucet and you have a place like this in your home state you're chairing the kind of committee that can actually help people and he refused. we could also know what he was cooking the problem was that in office a soldier of industry fact is in-house brother even used to work for the insurance agency owned by the mining companies in office in deal with polluters so he can't just order a buyout because that would prove this land is not fit for people and it's not fit and someone's got to pay for what got done and that could get expensive so they just pay in hope to make this buyout talk disappear and the citizens that stay but to prove that he was working for auto accounting folks he put together an eighteen million dollar cleanup plan to stand in for a buyout made everyone wait three ye

and when i was in oklahoma, a member of senator jim inhofe advisory council. the department of defense congressional office would come to help out with the dd-14s, medical records. and other agencies. my point is each city that you live in, that you govern, has a v.a. hospital. you're within reach of a v.a. regional office. you're not necessarily creating a new, another bureaucracy with the veterans treatment corps. you're simply allocating all the resources that are there anyways. thousands that work. perfect example. when i coordinated in tulsa a gentleman two tour iraq combat veteran there for the surge. post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, on the second dui, suicidal. in the tulsa county jail. never enrolled in the veterans health administration or never enrolled in the veterans benefit administration that center any veterans service. unemployed, divorced and lost skoefd his son. however, about six months later, tony, we got him enrolled in advanced health care. he leads a substance abuse group. we got him service connected with the vete

the chairman of a committee that's responsible for the new highway bill, and my ranking member, jim inhofe and i are as far away from each other as you can get in terms of philosophy, but i can tell you we are working hand in glove on this bill and we are, you know, more than halfway there. it's 1.8 million jobs saved, up to 1 million new jobs created. we can do this, and in my committee we all came together. so there is hope. and i think when the president focused on what happens in the military when you're out on a dangerous mission such as this rescue mission we just learned about, of course, the incredible mission that resulted in the killing of bin laden, what we see is the teamwork. what we see is people watching each other's back as the president said. we got to work together. it's not about us. it's about the american people, and we can do so much. what i really liked about the president's speech last night is that everyone expected him to say, you know, forget it, guys, i'm walking away. he reached out again with one hand. with the other he said, look, we can't wait. if you guys c

like on one side you've got, you know, 99% of serious scientists, on the the other hand you have jim inhofe or somebody else. we've got to sort of work it out for ourselves. well, you know, individuals can't work it out for themselves. and there's a kind of a background of distrust for reason and science which is itself very lethal. i mean, you shouldn't worship science. you could make mistakes and do awful things. but still it makes sense to study things seriously and carefully. and it's a serious cultural and institutional problem here which has to be dealt with in a sort of a fundamental way. so how do we communicate it? i mean, study of language can't tell you anything about that. but people have to be out there trying to get others to understand what's really happening to our society and do you want your grandchildren to have a decent world to live in, or is it better for the petroleum companies to make more profit today, and they'll have an environment in which you can't survive? those are real choices. fracking is a case in point. the fracking is actually a dual problem. one problem

senator jim inhofe. congressman linda miller and congressman sam graves. all great americans who we have come to have such great respect for and reflect their love of country. and i want to say a really special thanks to three distinguished veterans who have joined me on the trail. medal of honor resipient mike thornton. mike spent the last two days with us as we traveled across south caroline. navy cross recipient marcus latrel, thank you, brother. i appreciate you and mel coming to be with us today. my christian brother up in greenville and traveled so many miles with me, young marine captain dan moran. they truly represent what is best about america. who give of so much of themselves and they have been uplifting for me as a citizen, as the commander-in-chief of texas forces. again they are truly my heros. you know i began this race with a sense of calling. i felt led into the arena to fight for the future of this country and i feel no different today than i did then knowing a calling never guaranties a particular outcome but the journey that tests one's

sam brownback, senator jim inhofe -- all just great americans who we have, to have such great respect for and reflected their love of country. i want to say. special thanks -- i want to say a really special thanks to three distinguished veterans who have joined me on the trail. medal of honor recipient mike thornton. he spent the last two days with us as the troubled south carolina -- as we traveled the south carolina. thank you, brother. and my christian brother up in greensville, who has traveled so many miles with me, a young marine captain. they truly represent what is best about america, who give of so much of themselves. they have been uplifting fro -- uplifting for me as a citizen, as commander-in-chief of it texas forces. they are truly my heroes. i began this race with a sense of callingg. i feel no different today than i did it then, knowing how calling it never guarantees a particular outcome, but the journey that tests of one's faith and one's character. now the journey leads me back to texas, neither discouraged nor disenchanted, but instead rewarded highly by the experie