Joe Barton: “In reclaiming my time, we are trying to give money to the Federal Government that your subcommittee can use. It is a…”

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

I think that Mr. Flores and Mr. Shimkus have done a very good job in trying to patch together a compromise bill that's good politics.

I want to thank Congressman Rush for working with me as one of the two lead bipartisan sponsors.

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…