Joe Barton: “This is a difficult hearing because I think everybody has the same bottom line.”

I am grateful that that one did deliver.

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 can't tell you how excited I am to have this hearing. It's really exciting for me.

I helped lead the fight, and a lot of Members on the committee did, to repeal the ban on crude oil exports 3 or 4 years ago.