Joe Barton: “If we let the producers have the option of putting that oil on the world market, the consumer in the United States could…”

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

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…

It is voluntary on a State basis.

I think that Mr. Flores and Mr. Shimkus have done a very good job in trying to patch together a compromise bill that's good politics.