Joe Barton: “I think there is work to be done on a bipartisan basis if we want to.”

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

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I want to thank you, sir, for appearing voluntarily without subpoena and standing or sitting there all by yourself.

I was very heartened by the opening comments of Mr. Rush and Mr. Pallone.

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…