Joe Barton: “I have given you respectful requests almost every time you have appeared before the subcommittee or the full committee.”

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

It is not complicated if you are an elected member of Congress and all of a sudden Medicare recipients start showing up at their town, town hall.

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.

It's obvious that, to me, anyway, this program is being abused.