Joe Barton: “I'm a strong proponent of strong environmental protection. I was a co-sponsor and voted for the Clean Air Act in the…”

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…

I was very heartened by the opening comments of Mr. Rush and Mr. Pallone.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I want to thank you, sir, for appearing voluntarily without subpoena and standing or sitting there all by yourself.

It is always good to have hearings like this to try to, through bipartisan basis, get facts on the table.