Joe Barton: “I do believe there's a legitimate public interest certainly in the permitting and licensing part of these big…”

It is my honor to introduce to the House of Representatives the new Congressman for the 27th Congressional District of Texas, the Honorable Michael Cloud. Michael is a husband and a father. His wife and three children are either in the…

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…

It's obvious that, to me, anyway, this program is being abused.

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.