Joe Barton: “I think the Pompeo bill is a good step forward.”

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 think it is a measure of President George H.W. Bush that we all think of him as a personal friend. It is literally true that he had tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of men and women who considered themselves personal…

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

It is voluntary on a State basis.