Joe Barton actually said...

"Mr. Administrator, you're not the first person to be the victim for lack of a better term, Washington politics."

"Nobody can say ethanol is a struggling startup industry anymore. So you don't really need all the protection, the mandates, the quotas that we have today."

"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I am here under protest. I don't do getaway hearings, and I darned sure don't do hearings that start at 9 in the morning."

"If I were still chairman, I would be in a wrestling match with Chairman Shimkus because I would be repealing the Renewable Fuel Standard."