Joe Barton: “First of all, it says the Secretary shall establish and operate. Does that mean that the Federal Government would…”

Then we should just stiff the Medicare recipients?

If we did that and went to a pure market for ethanol, it would work.

I was in Senate Chamber trying to prevent a hold on H.R. 7217. I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 434. ____________________

There's a saying that a lot of us use quite a bit. It's called no good deed goes unpunished.