Joe Barton: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And we have given Chairman Tauzin the big head.”

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

If we did that and went to a pure market for ethanol, it would work.

But I also think I speak for the majority and the minority that we hope that this is something that can move reasonably expeditiously and that means actually end up in a bill the President signs in this Congress.

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