But the court decision would represent the law and you would follow it?

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thanks for a fair and open process. That is all we ask for.

The NRC plays an important role in promoting and maintaining the safety standards of nuclear reactors across the U.S. which makes the U.S. fleet the safest in the world.

In closing, I urge all my colleagues to look carefully at these and other concerns and try to address them fully, directly, completely, on the Senate floor. Mr. President, I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Michigan.

We are coming together on an EPA-related issue and doing something that is very important for health and safety.

Any decision made on the issue should be based only on sound science and objective facts.

I am very excited to have this hearing.

Safety, of course, is the priority for members of this Committee as it is for members of your body.

Nutrient trading has the potential to provide point sources with the flexibility needed to achieve water quality goals.

Regulators should not impose rigorous standards at the outset that would discourage or inhibit States.

I rise to present two amendments I have filed on this farm bill, and I will be pushing hard for votes on them right now. I hope these get a full and extensive debate and a vote. They are relevant and related to the farm bill in significant…

There has been a real attack on ag producers by the EPA in many regards.

We need to make sure that we fully understand the risks and rewards before moving forward.

I also strongly support the amendment. This is a commonsense ``Buy American'' provision, which is completely consistent with what we did on the recent highway bill in a bipartisan way which created no controversy, no debate at the time. I…

I thank the chairman for her assistance with this provision. Harbor Maintenance Taxes

I thank the chairman for including this provision, and I would note that the Corps of Engineers has long worked to ensure the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint, ACF, River Basin and Alabama-Coosa- Tallapoosa, ACT, River Basins are able to…

I join in all of the comments of the distinguished chairman of the committee, and I strongly support this bill as well. This is a jobs bill as well as a water maritime infrastructure bill that is good for the economy, and it does it in a…

I stand to echo all of those thoughts. Let me start with a lot of overdue thanks. First of all, let me thank a great partner in Chairman Boxer. As she said many times, we do not agree about a lot, including important issues within the…

I also strongly support this amendment. I think it is a very reasonable, commonsense amendment.

if I could ask unanimous consent to speak for 10 seconds. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

first of all, let me thank my colleague from California, the chair, and all of my colleagues for allowing us to move forward with a very open amendment process. It is not quite as open a process as I would have wanted--namely on the…

I rise to very briefly agree with two key points made by my colleague from Louisiana. First of all, as far as the substance of this amendment goes, I wholeheartedly agree with her, and that is why I am a sponsor of this amendment as well…

I rise for two reasons. First of all, I look forward to supporting the confirmation of Shelly Dick to become a judge in the Middle District of Louisiana, and I look forward to that vote in 5 minutes. As I have said before, I believe she…

through the Chair, I thank the Senator from Oklahoma. I briefly want to say two things: No. 1, I too am very supportive of this bill, which I do think is a strong bipartisan and a reform-oriented effort. I think the best proof of that is…

President Obama actually on May 9 of this year, issued his Open Data Executive Order that instructs Federal agencies to make that data public after it scrubs it of personal identifiers.