Joe Barton: “there are some bills that come before this body that are showhorse bills. They are full of glitz and glamour and lots of…”

“there are some bills that come before this body that are showhorse bills. They are full of glitz and glamour and lots of slogans and sloganeering. Some bills that come before this body are workhorse bills. They are full of common sense and solutions. This is a workhorse bill. It is full of solutions, not a lot of glitz and glamour in the bill. If we look at our energy sources, we see that in the conventional sources, whether it is oil, gas, coal, nuclear or hydro, we have real solutions. We increase the strategic petroleum reserve for oil to 1 billion barrels. We authorize up to $18 billion in loan guarantees to build the Alaska natural gas pipeline for the natural gas industry. We have the most extensive set of clean coal technology credits for coal that we have ever put before this body in terms of a tax package for clean coal. We have the most fundamental reform of our hydro relicensing procedure in over 30 years. And over half of our hydroelectric dams are up for renewal in the next 5 years. Those are solutions. They are not slogans. If you look at renewables, we have unlimited authorization for credits for wind and solar power. That is a solution, not a slogan. If you look at the new alternative fuel, hydrogen, we have the President's hydrogen fuel initiative in this bill. We have the goal of having a hydrogen-fueled car available in the marketplace by 2015. That is a solution, not a slogan.”