Mr. President, with all of the trauma that is going on right now with the oilspill and all of the other problems that are out there and, of course, the bill under consideration, I ask unanimous consent that I be recognized as in morning…

On April 22, a new EPA lead-based paint rule went into effect that has caused all kinds of serious problems, not just in my State of Oklahoma but throughout the country. My office has received an incredible number of calls and e-mails from…

Regulatory actions should always be . . . decisively administered so as to lend stability to the nuclear operational and planning processes.

By 2012, the NRC may be approaching a final decision on the first COLs.

How can these companies develop a construction schedule and plan the hiring of 3,000 construction workers if they don't know when they can start?

We set up something where we would have certain things that were going to be happening in the future, and then had oversight hearings every 6 months, and it worked real well.

Nearly all applicants indicated that certainty in scheduling is more crucial than speed.

How can investors feel confident about backing these projects if the agency itself is either incapable or unwilling to predict when it will finish its work?

We want predictability as well as certainty.

I appreciate that very much. Thank you.

Mr. President, as the co-chairman of the U.S. Senate Taiwan Caucus, I ask for unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the speech of Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou, delivered, via video conference, before the faculty and students at…

We need to be vigilant in our defense strategies.

normalizing homosexual behavior in the Armed Forces will pose a significant threat to chaplains' and servicemembers' religious liberty.

This is something that is just the right thing to do.

Yes, I think that this is something that, once people realize that, if you are precluding these individuals from going out and showing the whole world what we have to offer, that you're really doing a disservice to those natural resources…

I think that is working very well.

The Partners Program demonstrates that conservation, oil and gas development, and agriculture are not mutually exclusive.

I just don't like the idea that the Partnership Program, which is working so well, is being used for a different agenda.