Joe Barton actually said...

I understand Chairman Waxman's desire to beef up the staff, and that is understandable as a new chairman.

A budget freeze would not be the end of the world for this committee or for the Congress.

I would hope you all would abolish it. Whatever needs to be done, between Mr. Waxman's troops and my scalawag band of troops, we can get it ...

I would add one item to Chairman Waxman's agenda. That is the reauthorization of the National Institute of Health.