Joe Barton: “It looks to me like we have two issues here. We have an FDA issue, you are right, seeing Ms. Woodcock.”

I can't tell you how excited I am to have this hearing. It's really exciting for me.

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…

I helped lead the fight, and a lot of Members on the committee did, to repeal the ban on crude oil exports 3 or 4 years ago.