Joe Barton: “So those socioeconomic factors might be the reason that until the radical environmentalists begin to protest...”

I am grateful that that one did deliver.

I don't want to speak for the Department of Energy, but the draft legislation allows, without going through the appropriation process, funds generated by using this facility for private purposes to be used for maintenance of the facility.

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

There's a saying that a lot of us use quite a bit. It's called no good deed goes unpunished.