Joe Barton: “I have got an insurance premium that is higher than I have ever paid in my life.”

My Texas pride doesn't need to be hurt by that, is what you are telling me.

Before I yield to Dr. Burgess, I echo what Congresswoman Castor just said about the staffs that have worked so hard. We couldn't have done this bill without all the individuals she just named. I also thank her. When she said I have been…

I am grateful that that one did deliver.

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…