Joe Barton actually said...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And we have given Chairman Tauzin the big head.

I am asking you if you would ask your staff to do something unusual which was to take a personal look at this and see if we can't resolve it...

Without access to the information from the executive branch we cannot conduct the effective oversight.

We did it because folks at home in my state of Michigan, but frankly across the country and elsewhere, deserve to know how the government is...