Joe Barton: “I should have the right to know who is calling me and I make the decision whether I take that phone call.”

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

It doesn't change the basic mission statement. It doesn't change the authorized level of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

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.

The allegation that we made, the Republicans, is that you're discriminatory against us--against the Republicans.