Joe Barton: “first, I want to commend our distinguished chairman, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Boehlert), and our distinguished…”

“first, I want to commend our distinguished chairman, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Boehlert), and our distinguished ranking member, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hall), for their excellent work on this resolution that was reported on a bipartisan basis from the Committee on Science. I also want to thank the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Moore), my good friend, for his excellent work and for serving as an original cosponsor with myself on this bill. Before I get into my prepared remarks, I want to say a special ``get well soon'' to young Lindsay Taylor, who is 12 years old down in Round Rock, Texas. She is the President of her National Junior Honor Society. She is a budding civil engineer, although I think she wants to go to the University of Texas instead of Texas A&M, where I went to engineering school. She is home sick today and we need all of our young engineers to get well quick, so I hope that she does so very soon. Our first great civil engineer in this country was the man that we now know as the Father of our country, George Washington.”