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Longtime , who infamously to the Senate floor to argue is a “hoax,” is dead at 89. The conservative lawmaker suffered a stroke over the Fourth of July holiday weekend and died Tuesday, his family said in a statement to media outlets. Inhofe retired from politics in 2023 after being reelected in 2020 to the Senate seat he first won in 1994.

That tenure made him the Sooner State’s longest-serving senator. Inhofe previously served in the House of Representatives from 1987 to 1994. An Army veteran and licensed pilot, Inhofe chaired the Senate Armed Services Committee after fellow Republican pilot .



Veteran Sen. Mitch McConnell Tuesday in a statement recalling his former colleague’s “laser focus on growing and modernizing the U.S.

military.” He noted Inhofe’s reliability did justice to his middle name, which was Mountain. Inhofe was who once said scientific claims that human beings contribute to climate change was “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

” In February 2015, he brought a snowball into the U.S. Capitol and wondered aloud why scientists were worried about the Earth getting warmer when it was freezing outside.

Inhofe was also a MAGA enthusiast who broke with by voting to certify Joe Biden’s presidential election win over Donald Trump. He voted against convicting Trump at the 45th president’s unprecedented trials. South Carolina Sen.

Lindsey Graham, who celebrated his 69th birthday on Tuesday, by his good friend and former collea.

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