Joe Barton: “I foresee real difficulties. I can't fit them together. I don't know how that is going to work.”

It is always good to have hearings like this to try to, through bipartisan basis, get facts on the table.

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.

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

I thank the gentlewoman from Michigan for her kind words. I appreciate the nice gift I got yesterday from her and her husband, his new book, ``The Dean.'' I look forward to reading it over Christmas. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the…