Joe Barton: “I rise in support of this Reynolds amendment, but I am really standing to just say in closing in the overall energy…”

“I rise in support of this Reynolds amendment, but I am really standing to just say in closing in the overall energy debate this is the most comprehensive energy legislation that has been on the floor of the House, I would argue, in the last 30 or 40 years. It is not an energy bill for Republicans or an energy bill for Democrats. It is an energy bill for all Americans. We have a broad-based bill. We do something to try to help coal, to try to help oil and natural gas, to try to help nuclear, to try to help renewable, to try to help electricity. We are for biomass and natural gas and will be for sassafras if it helps provide the energy resources for this great Nation. We have the lowest-cost energy resource base in the world, and we have it because we believe in free markets and individuals working together in an entrepreneurial fashion to provide the goods and services in the energy sector that help makes us the most powerful and greatest Nation in the world. I hope that we would vote for this bill in a bipartisan fashion when it comes to final passage.”