Joe Barton: “We are just trying to adopt the SPR to the modern situation.”

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 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…

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

Truth is a powerful drug. Use it sparingly.