Joe Barton: “There is one minor point, they also all have to be built, and they are not all going to be built.”

I want to thank Congressman Rush for working with me as one of the two lead bipartisan sponsors.

It is voluntary on a State basis.

We are just trying to adopt the SPR to the modern situation.

I am a little bit skeptical if we are doing this simply because we don't like natural gas power, we don't like coal power, we don't like nuclear power, because that would be an added cost that somebody's got to bear.