Joe Barton: “We are willing to bet some money on that for a little bit. In any event, charity was the big winner. As you pointed out…”

It is always good to have hearings like this to try to, through bipartisan basis, get facts on the table.

I don't want to speak for the Department of Energy, but the draft legislation allows, without going through the appropriation process, funds generated by using this facility for private purposes to be used for maintenance of the facility.

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

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…