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...Jim Inhofe, the top Republican on the Senate armed services committee, said the bill would allow Ukraine to quickly get much-needed military aid and more advanced weapons systems as Russia prepares for a...
...CIA director Bill Burns told public radio NPR the trend lines were “certainly troubling” when asked about intelligence reports that Kabul could fall within six months of US withdrawal....
...Mr Reed’s Republican counterpart, Jim Inhofe, the Oklahoma senator who chairs the same committee, said he was glad the Senate voted for the bill by a wide bipartisan margin....
...If such a bill were to pass with a two-thirds majority, it would be impossible for Mr Trump to veto. There are other potential pitfalls....
...disagree over what to include in the national defence authorisation act, which determines the Pentagon’s budget and direction each year, both Mr Smith and his Republican counterpart in the Senate, Jim Inhofe...
...McCain’s chairmanship of the Senate Armed Services Committee will now go to James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma who is unlikely to challenge the president’s agenda, particularly on the contentious issue...
...Bill Peduto, mayor of Pittsburgh: “I can assure you that we will follow the guidelines of the Paris Agreement for our people, our economy & future.”...
...On Monday, Jim Inhofe, a senator from Oklahoma, and Bill Huizenga, a congressman from Michigan, filed a “resolution of disapproval” of the regulation under the CRA in the Senate....
...Some of the Senate’s most conservative members will also rise to positions of power, with Jim Inhofe, of Oklahoma, likely to take over as head of its environment committee....
...It does not help that Jim Inhofe, the incoming chairman of the Senate environment committee, has dismissed global warming as a “hoax”....
...Mr Inhofe, who labelled the Sandy bill as a “slush fund”, said on Tuesday that the Oklahoma tornado relief was “totally different”, while Mr Coburn said that he would insist that any federal disaster aid...
...The same went for Bill Clinton and George Bush senior before that. The case has only grown stronger over time....
...Inhofe Senator Tom Coburn Senator Ron Wyden Senator Jeff Merkley Senator Robert P. Casey Jr. Senator Patrick J....
...James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma and the chief sponsor of the bill in the Senate, has claimed that climate change is a “hoax”....
...“With unemployment over 12 per cent in California, this is exactly the wrong time to implement costly go-it-alone greenhouse gas restrictions,’’ said Valero’s Bill Day....
...Jim Inhofe, Oklahoma senator and member of the armed services committee, called it “absurd and thoughtless”....
...It’s dead, gone,” said Mr Inhofe, referring to the climate change bill that is now languishing in the upper chamber....
...Republicans have 40 seats in the house but James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, was absent....
...declared himself “100 per cent confident” the Senate would pass legislation next year to set up a mechanism to regulate greenhouse gases, joining the US House of Representatives, which approved its own bill...
...“We’re not going to be passing a climate change bill,” said James Inhofe, the Oklahoma senator, claiming that, among Americans, it was only the “Hollywood elite” that worried about global warming....
..."We're not going to be passing a climate change bill," said James Inhofe, the Oklahoma senator, claiming that, among Americans, it was only the "Hollywood elite" that worried about global warming....
...Talking to Fox News, he said: “Bill Clinton came in, a popular president, and he had the House and the Senate, he had it all, first thing he did was decimate the military, then get into all these issues...
...Wednesday’s testimony will help highlight the growing momentum to push through America’s first federal legislation to address climate change – there are at least nine separate bills in contention....
...However, Mr Dingell is still seen as an improvement on Joe Barton, the outgoing Republican chairman, who last year helped push through an energy bill that contained $6bn in new tax breaks for the oil companies...
...That compares with just one substantive carbon bill in 2003 and two in 2005....
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