Joe Barton: “So far you have done a very good job of dissimulating and not saying a darn thing so----”

It is always good to have hearings like this to try to, through bipartisan basis, get facts on the table.

Truth is a powerful drug. Use it sparingly.

But I also think I speak for the majority and the minority that we hope that this is something that can move reasonably expeditiously and that means actually end up in a bill the President signs in this Congress.

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. ____________________