Joe Barton actually said...

If you spend or are obligated to spend over $7 billion you darn sure better help somebody.

Emphasizing accountability for significant government spending on broadband initiatives.

02/26/2013

More Joe Barton Quotes

We need to move electricity from where it is generated to where it is consumed.

If you are going to have a nation that grows and an economy that grows, we are going to need more transmission lines.

Whatever your energy needs are, America has it.

I have been on this committee 30 years. I missed the memo apparently where it said we were trying to gut Medicaid, destroy the program.