Inhofe comfortable fighting lonely battles

 
| Published: November 19, 2010   

U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe reportedly was the only member of the Senate’s Republican caucus who voted this week against a moratorium on earmarks — the process by which members of Congress designate federal spending on specific projects in their states and districts. Sen. Lisa Murkowski missed the vote because she was in Alaska awaiting the conclusion of her re-election race, but says she would have voted against the ban if she had been around.

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The vote by Inhofe, R-Tulsa, was certainly no surprise. As he has explained many times, Inhofe believes the earmark moratorium is little more than a bunch of hot air over a relatively small...
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