OKLAHOMA CITY - Sen. Jim Inhofe met at the White House on Thursday with President Joe Biden and others about improving the nation’s roads and other transportation systems, as the president contemplates a major package to modernize infrastructure.
“It went very good, and one reason is I’ve known the president forever and we’ve worked on highway bills before,’’ Inhofe told reporters in Washington.
Inhofe was one of four senators from both parties who met with Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris; Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg joined the conversation by phone.
“I've been around long enough — and (Sen.) Tom (Carper) and Jim and all of us — that it used to be that infrastructure wasn't a Democrat or Republican issue,” Biden said at the outset of the meeting. “There are not many Republican or Democratic roads and bridges, and so on.
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Throwback Tulsa: A look back at Jim Inhofe's career
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State Se. Jim Inhofe's expression reflects the hopeless of his cause on November 5, 1974 as Tulsa John Hulburt shows him some early returns on the governor's race. The Tulsa Republican was beaten by Democrat David Boren. Tulsa World file photo
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Jim Inhofe is shown with his wife Kay and family on the night he won his first term as Tulsa mayor, April 4, 1978. Inhofe was mayor from 1978-1984 Tulsa World file photo
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Jim Inhofe is shown with his wife Kay on the night he won his first term as Tulsa mayor, April 4, 1978. Inhofe was mayor from 1978-1984 Tulsa World file photo
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Sen David Boren and Tulsa Mayor Jim Inhofe speak to honoree Alfred E. Aaronson with his wife Mrs. Aaronson during a dinner on March 25, 1979. Tulsa World file photo
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Jim Inhofe on November 4, 1986 when he won his first Congressional seat for the First District. Tulsa World file photo
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Kansas Senator Bob Dole (right) speaks at an August 1994 press conference at the BOK tower while Jim Inhofe (center) and Senator Don Nickles (left) watch. TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World File photo
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Jim Inhofe with actor Charlton Heston at a fundraiser for Inhofe's Senate campaign. heston spoke at St. Bernard Catholic Church on September 5, 1994. Tulsa World file photo
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Senator Jim Inhofe gets his receipt from Fran Roach after filing at the State Capitol in Oklahoma City on July 8, 1996. TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World File
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Jim Inhofe speaks at the Republican watch party in Oklahoma City on Nov. 5, 1996. TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World File
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Jim Inhofe speaks as his wife Kay stands beside him at the Republican watch party in Oklahoma City on Nov. 5, 1996, TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World File
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Jim Inhofe and Frank Keating pose for a photograph at the Oklahoma Hall of Fame ceremony on Nov. 22, 1996. Tulsa World File photo
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Maggie Inhofe is held by Sen Jim Inhofe at his headquarters in Tulsa. Tulsa World File photo
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U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe listens to a panel discussing issues involving rural health care at St. John Medical Center's Health Plaza on Aug. 31, 1999. TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World File
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Senate Armed Service Committee Chairman Sen. John Warner, R-Va., right, meets with Navy Secretary Richard Danzig, left, and committee member Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. on Capitol Hill Tuesday Oct. 19, 1999 prior to a hearing of the committee to discuss the Navy's bombing of the Puerto Rico island of Vieques. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
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Senator James (Jim) Inhofe presents the Purple Heart to Shannon Mathews on Monday, June 25, 2001. Matthews was injured on October 9, 1994 in PortAuPrince during operation Uphold Democracy. Tulsa World File photo
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U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe hugs Mary E. Peters, director of the U.S. Department of Transportation, after a press conference at the collapsed Interstate -40 bridge near Webbers Falls on Monday, June 10, 2002. Tulsa World File photo
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President Bush, Steve Largent, center, and James Inhofe, R-Okla., left, laugh during a Steve Largent for Governor and James Inhofe for Senate Luncheon Thursday, Aug. 29, 2002, in Oklahoma City, Okla. A vacationing Bush began wrapping up his monthlong respite from the White House with money trips to Oklahoma and Arkansas, where he also will talk about education at a back-to-school event. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe speaks about the now approved $10 million CrossTimbers Resort on Skiatook Lake while at a special ceremony at Tallchief Cove on Skiatook Lake on October 7, 2002. Tulsa World File photo
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Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. speaks during the dedication ceremony of the $11.95 million Composite Support Complex of the 138th Fighter Wing near Tulsa International Airport (TIA). The 138th Fighter Wing dedicated its new Composite Support Complex on Saturday March 8, 2003. Tulsa World File photo
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Mike Brown, right, director Federal Emergency Management Agency, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., second from right, and Sen. Don Nickles, R-Okla., rear left in blue, survey a tornado-damaged neighborhood Saturday, May 10, 2003, in Moore, Okla. President Bush issued a disaster declaration for the entire state of Oklahoma on Saturday after a second tornado in as many days hit Oklahoma City late Friday night. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Haderthauer)
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Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, far left, holds a sign up as Sen. Olympia Snow, R-Maine, center, and Sen. James Inhofe, R- Okla., right, walk into the Senate Chamber on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2003 in Washington. The Senate is in session for an all night debate on President Bush's blocked judicial nominations. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Protester Gloria Garner, a lifetime resident of Picher holds a sign up to U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe after a meeting he held with residents in Miami, Oklahoma on Dec. 19, 2003, to discuss the Tar Creek superfund site.Tulsa World File photo
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U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., speaks to several thousand people who showed up to a Pro America Rally today. The rally was held at LaFortune Stadium at Memorial High School. May 23, 2004. Tulsa World File photo
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U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe greet onlookers during the AEP-PSO 2004 Christmas Parade of Lights in downtown Tulsa on Dec. 11, 2004. JOHN CLANTON/Tulsa World File
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Gen. James Jones Jr., commander of U.S. European Command and supreme allied commander, Europe, left, talks with Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, March 7, 2006, prior to the committee's hearing on the Defense Department's fiscal 2007 budget for military operational requirements. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)
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Arrival of President George W. Bush at Vance Air Force Base Saturday morning, Saturday, May 6, 2006. He waves to people behind a barrier as he walks to board Marine One helicopter. Following Bush are US Sen. Jim Inhofe and Lt. Gov. Mary Fallin. He traveled by helicopter to Stillwater where he delivered an address at graduation ceremony at Oklahoma State University. JIM BECKEL/The Oklahoman
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U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., right, has lunch with U.S. military personnel in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone in Iraq on Sunday, June 11, 2006. (AP Photo/Mohammed Jalil, Pool)
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NATO's top commander, U.S. Gen. James L. Jones, right, listens to U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, before a press conference at the main US military base in Bagram, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct 28, 2006. NATO's top commander said Taliban fighters are using civilians as human shields and that in the heat of battle it can be difficult to separate the two. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, holds up a document while questioning former Vice President Al Gore during the committee's hearing on global climate change, Wednesday, March 21, 2007, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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U.S. Senator James Inhofe and Major General Peter Vangjel, Fort Sill commanding general, looking at a model of the XM-1203 Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon during dedication ceremonies for the BAE Systems Initial Facility building at the Fort Sill Industrial Park in Elgin, Okla. Monday, August 25, 2008. PAUL B. SOUTHERLAND/The Oklahoman
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U.S. Senate candidates Andrew Rice and Jim Inhofe chat at their podiums before the beginning of the debate at the KJRH studios in Tulsa, Okla. October 7, 2008. Tulsa World File photo
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U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., waits with a number of his grandchildren to be introduced at a Republican election night watch party in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., flanked by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., left, and Rep. John Fleming, D-La., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 11, 2009, to discuss the economy. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
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U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe is greeted by Josh Douglas and his daughter Kimmie Douglas, 8, as the senator rides horseback during the Broken Arrow Christmas Parade, on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010. Tulsa World File photo
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Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., at microphone, joined by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., center, talks to reporters about federal regulation of greenhouse gases and soaring gas prices, Tuesday, March 15, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo)
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Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the ranking Republican Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, greets EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 12, 2011, prior to the committee's hearing entitled, "Review of the Nuclear Emergency in Japan and Implications for the U.S." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Anita Perry and her husband Republican Presidential candidate Gov. Rick Perry of Texas listen as Senator Jim Inhofe endorses him at the Tulsa Press Club August 29, 2011. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World File
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Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., speaks to Jane Horton, widow of U.S. Army Spc. Christopher D. Horton, 26, of Collinsville, Okla., who died while serving in Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, during the burial services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., center, and Rep. John Mica, R- Fla., left, listen as Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., right, speaks during the first meeting of the House and Senate conference on the transportation bill, Tuesday, May 8, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Sen. James Inhofe, left, R-Okla., greets Oklahoma state Rep. Mike Jackson, right, R-Enid, in Waukomis, Okla, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. Inhofe was in Waukomis to speak against the expansion of the Clean Water Act to authority over wet areas on private land.(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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United States Senator Jim Inhofe speaks during a news conference about the I-44 Riverside Drive to Yale Avenue widening project Oct. 30, 2012. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World File
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Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, questions Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, during the committee's hearing about the Pentagon's role in responding to the attack last year on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where the ambassador and three other Americans were killed. The committee's ranking Republican Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. listens at left. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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In this July 8, 2014, file photo, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Vice President Joe Biden administers the Senate oath to Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. during a ceremonial re-enactment swearing-in ceremony, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, in the Old Senate Chamber of Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., is surrounded by reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015. Following the success of the GOP in the midterm elections, the 80-year-old Republican from the oil-producing state of Oklahoma is the new chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., speaks with Bill John Baker (right), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, before a press conference held on the on-ramp to highway 169 at east 56th street north in Tulsa on Friday, June 26, 2015. Inhofe and local business leaders and officials talked about the importance of continued federal funding for improved highway safety in Oklahoma and a U.S. 169 widening and bridge project that was awarded in April and is designed to replace eight bridges, all built in 1960-1961, with six of them listed as structurally deficient. JOHN CLANTON/Tulsa World File
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Sen. Jim Inhofe brandishes a snowball on the Senate floor in this C-SPAN screengrab in 2015.
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Pam Pollard, chairwoman of the Oklahoma Republican Party, is at the microphone as the state's delegation casts its votes at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. To the right of Pollard are Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin and U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. RANDY KREHBIEL/Tulsa World File
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Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., joined by, from left, Sen. David Vitter, R-La., Bonnie Lautenberg, widow of the late New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., and Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., discusses bipartisan legislation to improve the federal regulation of chemicals and toxic substances, Thursday May 19, 2016, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Performing the duties of the Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Ok., left, shakes hands with Navy Adm. Philip Davidson, right, after a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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County Commissioner Karen Keith(left), City Councilor Phil Lakin and Senator Jim Inhofe speak on the Midland Valley Bridge as traffic passes below on the newly opened Riverside Drive Sept. 10, 2018. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World File
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U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe makes remarks at the American Airlines maintenance facility, 3800 North Mingo Road, in Tulsa, Okla., on Friday, October 26, 2018. Inhofe visited the plant to tout a recent bill that will strengthen the aviation workforce. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World File
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Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee speaks to reporters on his way to his office, as the Senate takes up a House-passed bill that would pay for President Donald Trump's border wall and avert a partial government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Vietnam War veteran John Marler (center) accepts an Army commendation medal with valor from Chris Medrano (left), a senior vice commandant from the Marine Corps League, and U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (right) at Grace Living Center, 711 N. Fifth St., in Jenks, Okla., on Thursday, March 21, 2019. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World
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U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe shakes hands with military veterans after presenting an award to Vietnam War veteran John Marler at Grace Living Center, 711 N. Fifth St., in Jenks, Okla., on Thursday, March 21, 2019. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World
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Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., center, walks on Capitol Hill, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, in Washington, before the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. (AP Photo/ Jacquelyn Martin)
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