Joe Barton: “If you can't heat your home effectively in the wintertime... that can affect your health.”

It is always good to have hearings like this to try to, through bipartisan basis, get facts on the table.

I want to thank Congressman Rush for working with me as one of the two lead bipartisan sponsors.

I think it's good to have this and I think it's very good that we try to work to tighten up and, as the gentlelady just said, let's determine what the real intent is and then legislate accordingly.

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