Joe Barton: “I want to thank the most valuable player for the Republican baseball team this year for the time. I want to commend Mr.…”

“I want to thank the most valuable player for the Republican baseball team this year for the time. I want to commend Mr. Doyle, the manager of the Democratic congressional team, for his victory, and commend Mr. Clay, Congressman Clay, whose St. Louis Cardinals are playing my Texas Rangers in the World Series, who proudly wears the St. Louis Cardinals uniform in the congressional game; that in the next two, Wednesday and Thursday nights, at least one of those games the Rangers win so that they can get their first World Series championship in history. And once that happens, between them, the Rangers and the Cardinals will have 11 World Series championships. I want to thank Congressman Hanna for his excellent work on this bill. I am a proud cosponsor of it. I have the Cooperstown Hall of Fame baseball cap on my head, which I am violating the rules of the House so I have to take it off immediately. But it is a great institution. Fourteen million Americans have visited it in person since it was established in 1939. I hope to take my son or sons--I have two sons and two grandsons--to that Hall of Fame in person in the very near future.…”