Joe Barton: “We absolutely don't want to set up a system where somebody in this audience can play poker online for money if their…”

I am a little bit skeptical if we are doing this simply because we don't like natural gas power, we don't like coal power, we don't like nuclear power, because that would be an added cost that somebody's got to bear.

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…

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

This is a really, really good bill. I hope we have a great hearing.