Joe Barton: “the laws that are on the books had no conceptual ability to foresee what is now happening in the marketplace.”

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

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.

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.

Then we should just stiff the Medicare recipients?