Joe Barton actually said...

"I think we have got the answer to what to do about our deficit. We will just do a special tax on Chairman Waxman's rich people in his district."

"I was here in the Congress on this committee when we passed the Clean Air Act amendments in the early 1990s."

"I do not believe that a temperature difference of somewhere between 6 thousandths and 15 thousandths of a degree centigrade is going to make one iota of difference in any individual's health on this p..."

"I believe that in the next Congress, if not in this Congress, we ought to have a real debate on this committee about greenhouse gases as applied to the Clean Air Act."