Joe Barton: “Our national debt is about $20 trillion, give or take a trillion or two.”

I think it's good to have this and I think it's very good that we try to work to tighten up and, as the gentlelady just said, let's determine what the real intent is and then legislate accordingly.

The final Medicaid discussion draft, the ACE Kids Act, is introduced by full committee Vice Chairman Barton and Representative Castor.

Every now and then, we have a day when it reminds us why we ran for Congress. Today is one of those days.

The allegation that we made, the Republicans, is that you're discriminatory against us--against the Republicans.