Joe Barton actually said...

"What is very clear is that you don't want to answer the question."

"I want to be explicitly clear. If there really is a regulatory gap--based on the record that I have reviewed, I don't believe there is."

"we have a job to clarify the law if there is not clarity in the law, and we can easily do it."

"You can take a regulator to a problem, but you can't make it regulate."