A Senate Republican committee leader today blamed an ongoing global food crisis on “decades of misguided environmental and energy policies.”
James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, said worldwide access to food is declining and prices are skyrocketing because of meddling politicians bureaucrats in Washington who have been afraid of expanding energy supplies.
Current policy that has led to the consumption of more corn as ethanol-based fuel rather than as food “has skewed common sense and has violated the principles of a sound energy policy,” Inhofe said on the Senate floor.
He urged Congress to revisit its December 2007 biofuel mandate and admit that it made a mistake by implementing it, and he said the Environmental Protection Agency should review its statutory options to relieve the impact of the mandate.
Sen. James Inhofe joined five of his Republican colleagues this week in introducing a bill aimed at reviving plans for a nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain in the Nevada desert to handle the spent nuclear fuel currently spread among dozens of states.
Inhofe, R-Okla., explained the proposal in a speech on the Senate floor. “The debate is no longer in existence, whether a repository should be built at Yucca Mountain. That decision was made in 2002. The task that remains is to develop a respository that protects public health and safety and the environment.”
Former Vice President Al Gore has drawn hordes of attention to concerns about global warming this year, what with his Academy Award for the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” and his recent share of the Nobel Peace Prize for his focus on climate change. But Gore’s views on the subject have not gone unchallenged.
Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., has been one of Gore’s chief critics over the past year, and today he delivered a two-hour speech on the Senate floor to challenge some of the research underlying conclusions about global warming as a threat to Earth. His staff on the Environment and Public Works Committee, where Inhofe is the top Republican, captured parts of the speech in shorter video clips and posted them to YouTube.
The videos are the latest in a series that capture Inhofe’s kickback against Gore and other advocates of government intervention to counteract global warming. You can see the others at his YouTube page.
The Senate yesterday voted 81-12 to clear the final version of a bill that would reauthorize water resource development programs of the Army Corps of Engineers. The House passed the measure, which the Heritage Foundation has criticized for being laden with pork-barrel spending, in August.
Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., was among the supporters of the legislation and defended it on the floor.
Rep. Tim Walberg today joined the chorus of Republicans who have condemned the liberal activist group MoveOn.org for a newspaper advertisement that criticized Army Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq. He also scolded Democratic lawmakers with ties to MoveOn.
“I’m fearful there are many Democrats who agree with MoveOn.org, and I think … they ought to stand up very proudly and say, ‘We accepted resources from MoveOn.org for campaigns and continue to accept them because they speak for us,’” Walberg, R-Mich., said in an interview with Heading Right Radio. “I think a number of them could say that sincerely!
“They may not like MoveOn.org embarrassing them by calling General Petraeus, a dignified soldier of the first order, ‘General Betrayed Us,’ but that’s what MoveOn.org and their ilk are all about. They are not for America, they’re not for our freedoms. … They’re not for the America that we know and love, and the America that has benefited the entire world.”
In a separate interview with Hot Air, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., issued this warning: “I would suggest than any Democrat who takes money in this next election cycle from MoveOn.org, we’re gonna use that issue to let them know what types of people would support them financially. … It’s unconscionable that could happen.”
Plus more condemnation of MoveOn’s “trash” from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., during a floor speech:
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