Joe Barton: “I want to compliment the chairman, who is not here, for the new seats up here on the dais. They are very comfortable.”

We are just trying to adopt the SPR to the modern situation.

Well, then the manufacturer doesn't have to give the coupon. If they don't give the coupon to the doctor, the doctor doesn't give it to the patient.

But I also think I speak for the majority and the minority that we hope that this is something that can move reasonably expeditiously and that means actually end up in a bill the President signs in this Congress.

It doesn't change the basic mission statement. It doesn't change the authorized level of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.