Joe Barton: “I don't know where these rumors come from that Members have tempers. That must be on the minority side.”

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…

The allegation that we made, the Republicans, is that you're discriminatory against us--against the Republicans.

It is voluntary on a State basis.

We are just trying to adopt the SPR to the modern situation.