Joe Barton actually said...

"I think, Mr. Chairman, that it is time for us now to try to deal--first of all, we have got to admit that we are a schizophrenic committee..."

"If the answer to our economic problem is more regulation so that we get more people hired for compliance, we could go out and start hiring people to go rob banks."

"This Utility MACT rule is the most expensive regulation that has ever been proposed on the American economy."

"I do appreciate you for holding this hearing, you and Mr. Green, on the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard Program."