Joe Barton actually said...

"This is an important hearing that we are having today because it addresses an issue that we really haven't done a very good job of addressing--this issue of cybersecurity and emergency response."

"I do believe there's a legitimate public interest certainly in the permitting and licensing part of these big infrastructure projects."

"We seem to be more up to date in our private sector infrastructure than our public sector infrastructure."

"Congress keeps trying to do the right thing in healthcare. We've adopted two policies that we thought were positive, but in terms of cost they don't seem to have helped much."