Joe Barton actually said...

"I hate to be the skunk at the garden party, but every now and then I am."

"I think it is better to have a third-party review than to have it sit on a bureaucrat's desk at the FDA and not get reviewed at all, but that is just me."

"I will look at this with an open mind, but if I had to vote today, I would vote no."

"I am extremely glad that you are holding this hearing but don't ask this member to rubberstamp a doubling of a user fee."