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James Mountain "Jim" Inhofe (born November 17, 1934) is the senior Senator from Oklahoma and a member of the Republican Party. First elected to the Senate in 1994, he is the ranking member of the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and was its chairman from 2003 to 2007. Inhofe served eight years as the U.S. Representative for Oklahoma's 1st congressional district before his election to the Senate in 1994 and also previously served as both an Oklahoma State Representative and Senator.
Early life
Inhofe was born in Des Moines, Iowa and moved with his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was a child. He was a member of the Class of 1953 at Tulsa Central High School,and served in the United States Army from 1957 to 1958.In 1959, Inhofe married Kay ...
Senator Inhofe met with Secretary of the Army Pete Geren, on the National Mall, Washington, D.C., during the unveiling of the 1st prototype of the Non-Line of Sight Cannon in 2008. , positive
Iguess Ishouldn't be surprised by the fact that Sen. James Inhofe appeared on "Focal Point" yesterday, the radio program hosted by the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer.
After all, if there was going to be one member of Congress comfortable with someone like Fischer - who has declared that all Muslims should be banned from the military and deported from the US, homosexuality should be illegal and that all gays should be treated like criminals, praised Ryan Sobra for his anti-gay rant at CPAC, called for the stoning of a killer whale at Sea World, and stated that gays are sexually ...
Senator Jim Inhofe is a proud and bold man. He's the kind of man who maintains a commercial pilot's license so he can fly himself to campaign events. He's the kind of man who will ride his own horse in an annual end-of-the-year parade in Tulsa (until the day when, to encourage more children to feel included, they change the event's name from "Christmas Parade of Lights" to "Holiday Parade of Lights," of course, in which case he'll proudly and boldly boycott it). He's the kind of man who not only voted against prohibiting "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment of U.S. government prisoners, but ...
In a week filled with talk of trillions in debt — and how to get rid of it — you could be forgiven if you missed a more plane story involving Jim Inhofe. (No, that is not a typo.)
Inhofe, a relatively low-profile Republican senator from Oklahoma, is an experienced pilot, plenty experienced to land a plane at a small airport in South Texas.
Unless, of course, the runway where he was trying to land was closed — and clearly marked as closed with a large yellow X.
That’s the situation Inhofe found himself in last October, as he was forced to “skyhop” (which ...