Joe Barton: “We have been waiting for nearly five years for federal approval of Keystone XL.”

There's a saying that a lot of us use quite a bit. It's called no good deed goes unpunished.

It is not complicated if you are an elected member of Congress and all of a sudden Medicare recipients start showing up at their town, town hall.

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.