Joe Barton: “I don't see why CMS has to arbitrarily say this is going to be the way it is come hell or high water.”

Every now and then, we have a day when it reminds us why we ran for Congress. Today is one of those days.

I am a little bit skeptical if we are doing this simply because we don't like natural gas power, we don't like coal power, we don't like nuclear power, because that would be an added cost that somebody's got to bear.

We are just trying to adopt the SPR to the modern situation.

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