Joe Barton: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman.”

I think it is a measure of President George H.W. Bush that we all think of him as a personal friend. It is literally true that he had tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of men and women who considered themselves personal…

There's a saying that a lot of us use quite a bit. It's called no good deed goes unpunished.

It is voluntary on a State basis.

Every now and then, we have a day when it reminds us why we ran for Congress. Today is one of those days.