Joe Barton: “We need to allow for those differences at the legislative level, but also at the regulatory level at FERC.”

I was very heartened by the opening comments of Mr. Rush and Mr. Pallone.

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 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.

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