Joe Barton: “This is causing a problem in the market, in the generic drug market. This is one of the reasons why prescription drug…”

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

I can't tell you how excited I am to have this hearing. It's really exciting for me.

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.

I think it is a measure of President George H.W. Bush that we all think of him as a personal friend. It is literally true that he had tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of men and women who considered themselves personal…