Joe Barton: “I stand corrected. I can't blame that on the Senate, then.”

I helped lead the fight, and a lot of Members on the committee did, to repeal the ban on crude oil exports 3 or 4 years ago.

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.

I can't tell you how excited I am to have this hearing. It's really exciting for me.

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