Joe Barton: “The issues that we are discussing today have the ability to harm our sick, inhibit innovation and stifle domestic…”

The allegation that we made, the Republicans, is that you're discriminatory against us--against the Republicans.

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.

I can't tell you how excited I am to have this hearing. It's really exciting for me.

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…