Jim Inhofe

James Inhofe (2017)

James Mountain "Jim" Inhofe (born November 17, 1934 in Des Moines , Iowa ) is an American politician ( Republican Party ) and since 1995 Senator for the state of Oklahoma .

He was previously a member of the House of Representatives from 1967 to 1969 and of the Oklahoma Senate from 1969 to 1977 . Between 1987 and 1994 he represented Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives . He was also mayor of Tulsa from 1978 to 1984 .

Youth and early career

Inhofe moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma with his family as a child. He served in the United States Army from 1957 to 1958 . In 1973, aged 39, he earned a BA from the University of Tulsa Inhofe served as President of Quaker Life Insurance Company , which filed for bankruptcy during his tenure .

He has a pilot's license, owns an aircraft and is a member of the AOPA pilots' association .

Inhofe has been married to Kay Inhofe, b. Kirkpatrick, with whom he has four children. One of her sons died in 2013 when he crashed his plane.

Political career

Inhofe has been politically active since the 1960s. From 1967 to 1969 he sat for the Republicans in the Oklahoma House of Representatives and from 1969 to 1977 in the state Senate. For the past four years he was the Republican opposition leader there. In 1976 he decided against re-election, ultimately running for the US House of Representatives without success. In 1978 he won another political office: he became mayor of Tulsa - an office that he held until 1984.

congress

Inhofe's official picture from the 100th Congress (1987)

After the Democratic seat holder Jim Jones no longer ran for re-election, Inhofe ran again and won his first election in 1986 as well as the elections in 1988, 1990 and 1992 in the 1st  Congressional constituency of Oklahoma, which has since been considered a Republican stronghold.

In 1994 the University of Oklahoma elected then-Democratic Senator from Oklahoma, David Boren , as its president. Boren announced that he would run as university president as soon as a successor was elected in the Senate, and so a by-election was held in Oklahoma, which Inhofe ran. The election, which took place at the same time as the 1994 congressional elections , led to a republican landslide victory across the country, in which Inhofe also won his office. He sat in the Senate for the remaining two years of Bowen's term before being confirmed for the regular six years with another election victory in 1996. In the Senate, he has been chairman of the Committee on the Environment and Public Buildings since January 2015 , which he was from 2003 to 2007, and also sits on the Armed Forces Committee .

In 2018, he represented the terminally ill John McCain as chairman of the Senate Defense Committee and took over the chairmanship after McCain's death.

Political positions

Jim Inhofe with the Executive Secretary of Defense of the USA , Patrick Shanahan , at the Munich Security Conference (2019)

Inhofe is considered an extremely conservative Republican. In the 1994 Senate election he used the slogan “God, Guns and Gays” and spoke out in public for school prayers , against gun control and against homosexuals being allowed into the military. In general, he advocates a business-friendly and environmental policy. Among other things, Inhofe is considered the Republican politician who most prominently denies man-made global warming . This is what he called it the " hoax " ever to deceive the American people, and a " conspiracy ." Only the separation of state and church is an even bigger fraud. As chairman of the Senate's environmental committee, he made it an important pillar of the organized climate change denial scene , and also called for leading climate researchers to be brought to justice. He is in close contact with Marc Morano , who runs a major climate denier website for him.

Inhofe 2015 at a Senate speech in which he argued against the existence of global warming with a snowball

In February 2015, he brought a snowball to a Senate session and cited the existence of snow as evidence against global warming and the record temperatures recently announced in 2014. In doing so, he deliberately confused climate and weather; in fact, climate research does not claim that no more snow will fall in the future. Previously, he had in his book The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future a Bible verse from the first book of Genesis ( Gen 8.22  EU led) on the history of creation of the earth as evidence against the existence of man-made climate change. In this passage from the Bible, which Inhofe called his favorite passage, it is stated that there should be frost and heat as long as the earth exists.

In 2006, he compared people who believe in global warming to Nazis, and the US environmental agency EPA to the Gestapo . In 2008 he claimed that air pollution was at an all-time low, rejecting stricter environmental limits. These would damage the economy, but would have no significant effects on the environment. In 2005 he fought against the expansion of mercury limits to include oil and gas firing.

Inhofe has also publicly stated several times that he considers most of the predictions about the ozone hole to be an invention. As chairman of the Senate Environment Committee , he blocked a bill that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stipulate trading in emission rights . He made the 2004 novel, State of Fear ( State of Fear ) , that of a global conspiracy are by environmentalists, required reading for the Senate committee.

In September 2013 Inhofe rejected a military strike against Syria .

Web links

Commons : James Inhofe  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jim Inhofe in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Website

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} James Mountain Inhofe, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
2. ↑ Hyde Mulvihill APC Lawyers - “Insurers in Liquidation, Rehabilitation and under Conservation / Supervision” ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2008/November/1/Candidates-who-understand-GA
4. ↑ aviationweek.com
5. ^ Jim Inhofe named chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, replacing John McCain . In: The Washington Examiner , September 5, 2018. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
6. ↑ Oklahoma's Inhofe on attack again in Senate race , USA Today , September 18, 2008
7. ↑ ^{a b c} John H. Barnhill: Inhofe, James. In: Mathew Lindstrom (Ed.): 'Encyclopedia of the US Government and the Environment'. History, Policy and Politics. Vol. 1, ABC-CLIO 2011, pp. 417f.
8. ^ ^{A b} Riley E. Dunlap, Aaron M. McCright: Organized Climate Change Denial. In: John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, David Schlosberg (Eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society . Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 144-160, esp. 153f.
9. ↑ Jim Inhofe: The Greatest Hoax. How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens your Future . WND Books, Washington, DC 2012.
10. ↑ Republican Senate environment chief uses snowball as prop in climate rant. In: The Guardian , February 26, 2015. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
11. ↑ Michael Brüggemann : The media and the climate lie. False skepticism and real denial. In: Volker Lilienthal , Irene Neverla (Hrsg.): "Lügenpresse": Anatomy of a political battle term . Cologne 2017, pp. 137–157, here p. 142.
12. ↑ Forget about that snowball - here's what climate change could actually do to our winters. In: Washington Post , March 3, 2015. Retrieved November 12, 2017.
13. ↑ Michael K. Janofsky: Michael Crichton, novelist, Becomes Senate Witness. New York Times , September 29, 2005
14. ↑ welt.de September 3, 2013: Influential Republicans want to attack Assad