James Mountain Inhofe (born November 17, 1934) is an American politician who is the senior United States senator from Oklahoma, a position he has held since 1994.
Jim Inhofe was a Republican who chaired the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) from 2003 to 2007, and again from 2015 to 2017. Inhofe was the United States Representative for Oklahoma’s First Congressional District from 1987 to 1994, and the mayor of Tulsa from 1978 to 1984.
Inhofe is well-known for his rejection of climate science. He has supported a constitutional amendment to prohibit same-sex marriage and proposed the Inhofe Amendment to make English the national language of the United States.
Jim Inhofe Illness: What Disease Does Jim Inhofe Have?
“There is no doubt,” the Oklahoma Republican said, linking what he thought was a routine swim in the lake on Monday morning to a severe upper respiratory infection.
“I was just deathly sick that night, Monday night.”
Inhofe and his wife, Kay, have lived on the lake for decades, and he has never seen such algae in the water before.
