Joe Barton: “I apologize to the Speaker. There is some confusion. I have tried several times today to file the energy conference…”

“I apologize to the Speaker. There is some confusion. I have tried several times today to file the energy conference report. Because of technical glitches, every time we get right to the lip of the cliff, we have to do one little more thing. So I apologize for any confusion. Mr. Speaker, I am here today multi-hatted. In addition to working on energy, my committee has also been working on health care. The bills that are under suspension, the five bills in the House and the Senate, are all moving to make health care better and more affordable and also more understandable for the American people. My excellent subcommittee chairman, the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Deal), has worked very hard on this on a bipartisan fashion. The ranking member, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell) of the full committee level, and the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the ranking member of the subcommittee, have worked to make the bills that we are going to consider today very, very good bills as well as very bipartisan bills. So, Mr. Speaker, I am simply saying that the first bill that we are going to consider is very worthy of consideration, and I hope the House will pass it expeditiously and then move to the next four.”