Inhofe's environmental committee will require decisions be made based on three things: Sound science, cost benefit analysis and an attitudinal change in the bureaucracies, "starting with the worst of them all, the EPA," he said.

Inhofe wants military spending to return to about 4 percent of the Gross Domestic Product.

Oklahoma can get more federal highway funding than has been sent here in the past, Inhofe said. Oklahoma and some other states are "donor" states and need additional funding.