Joe Barton actually said...

"This is a good first step. But if this is all we do, it's a sterile step. On the other hand, if you really follow up and include everybody in the process, you're more than likely to get a solution tha..."

"I understand Chairman Waxman's desire to beef up the staff, and that is understandable as a new chairman."

"A budget freeze would not be the end of the world for this committee or for the Congress."

"I would hope you all would abolish it. Whatever needs to be done, between Mr. Waxman's troops and my scalawag band of troops, we can get it done. We don't need the Select Committee."