Joe Barton: “We want to go to conference and work on a bipartisan basis for an energy policy. The Committee on Energy and Commerce...…”

“We want to go to conference and work on a bipartisan basis for an energy policy. The Committee on Energy and Commerce... passed this bill 50 to 5... We are the 'happy face' committee. We want to go to conference with the other body and work in a bipartisan basis. So we are very willing to say we do not want an energy policy that increases the national deficit. Let us think about that a little bit. This country for over 150 years has had an energy policy that is based on private markets, where we allocate capital through the free enterprise system to create energy sources at the lowest possible cost possible. Because of that, we have the world's greatest economy.”