Joe Barton actually said...

Why wouldn't we be talking about taking this excess light sweet crude and tooling up our refinery capacity to keep it here in the United States?

Barton advocates for refining crude domestically instead of exporting it.

07/08/2015

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I want to commend Dr. Burgess for the work that he has done over the last several years.

If we were willing to look outside the system we could do some oil and gas revenue royalties from the OCS or Alaska or federal lands.

I think the discussion draft is an excellent document, and we can iron out the details through these hearings.

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