oklahoma senator james lankford is chair of the hearing. looks like it could be a couple of minutes before it underway. we will have live coverage when it starts here on c-span3. >>> good morning. i want to welcome everyone on today's subcommittee hearing. i look forward to another important discussion regarding the renewable fuel standard and its management. since 2005 daily domestic royal production has nearly doubled. meanwhile other government regulations such as fuel economy standards combined with the recession led to lower demand that anticipated. the increased use of natural gas as lowered the greenhouse emissions. statutorily the epa is required to release the mandated volume by november 30th of the previous year. the epa has not met this deadline since 2009 and we're still waiting epa for the final version of the 2014 volumes even though the year in question has been over for six months. when the announcement was made in november of last year that we would not see a final rule until the calendar was over, the agent cited significa

. >> republicans are are james lankford was one of two commencement speakers this year at oklahoma state university. senator lankford was elected to the u.s. senate in november. he previously served as a u.s. representative for oklahoma's fifth congressional district. it is 15 minutes. >> well good morning to you. it's my honor to get a chance to be here and yes for cindy and i this is our anniversary. this is number 23. isn't this romantic? i took her to a commencement for our anniversary. a little later tonight we'll be able to have a nice romantic dinner cuddle around the tv and watch weather like everyone else so welcome to oklahoma on that. graduates congratulations to you. it's a very big day for you and your family. so i hope you enjoy and you just take this in and the moments and your able to remember well what happens here. there are a couple moments in your life that you will get free advice from random strangers. this is one of them. if anyone finds out you're graduating, immediately a total stranger will go, great! i have something to tell you. this will happen again when you

. >> senate chaplain barry black and oklahoma senator james lankford led a prayer for the victims of the church shooting in charleston, south carolina. >> come to the mercy speak fervently, kneel. here, bring your wounded hearts. here, tell your anguish. earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. a church should be one of the safest places on the planet. and people assemble to lift their hearts in prayer and to hear the word of god as they were brutaly murdered in the house of god. our hearts ache for the families of the victims. our hearts ache for the citizens of charleston, south carolina. our hearts ache for our nation. and we pri and ask that god would somehow use up to end the insanity of violence that we see. our hearts ache because the alleged murderer killed without mercy. it didn't matter regarding gender. it didn't matter regarding this, because in the future people will feel fear in the house of god, when they should feel peace and serenity. our hearts ache because we must acknowledge that we all to some extent play a part in the pathology that we see in our land. john

oklahoma senator james lankford is chair of the hearing. looks like it could be a couple of minutes before it underway. we will have live coverage when it starts here on c-span3.