Joe Barton: “Exports may help oil companies, but will they really benefit consumers?”

Every now and then, we have a day when it reminds us why we ran for Congress. Today is one of those days.

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.

It's obvious that, to me, anyway, this program is being abused.

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