Joe Barton: “I want to thank the gentlewoman from Houston for offering it. Is she willing to do this on a voice vote and consider…”

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…

There's a saying that a lot of us use quite a bit. It's called no good deed goes unpunished.

My Texas pride doesn't need to be hurt by that, is what you are telling me.

I was in Senate Chamber trying to prevent a hold on H.R. 7217. I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 434. ____________________