Joe Barton actually said...

"I would like to still be in Congress when we actually fund it. And as your current Secretary said famously back in Texas, let's get on down the road."

"This country has been so blessed with natural resources, and then doubly blessed with an economic system based on freedom and free markets."

"Mr. Johnson's bill is simply an acknowledgment of that and says let's use this economic resource that we have to benefit the rest of the world."

"We repealed the crude oil ban. As I speak today, we are exporting about 2 million barrels of oil per day."