Joe Barton: “I have been in the Congress 26 years. I have been on the Energy and Commerce Committee 24 years. I have been a…”

“I have been in the Congress 26 years. I have been on the Energy and Commerce Committee 24 years. I have been a congressional observer or delegate at large to all the major global warming climate change conferences, or COPS, council of parties. I was at Kyoto when Vice President Gore came over and made his famous speech, and then on behalf of President Clinton agreed to sign the Kyoto Accord, which the U.S. Senate never took up. Most recently, I was a part of the congressional delegation that then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi took to Copenhagen last year, where President Obama came and pleaded that there be a conference agreement, which then Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton agreed to fund with dollars that the U.S. Government didn't have. So I was at Buenos Aires. I mean I have been to all the major conferences as a congressional observer or delegate. I chaired dozens of hearings on global warming, authored bills, was an original cosponsor and passed the--I helped to vote for and support the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990.”