Joe Barton: “I want to apologize to the chairman and the ranking member and our esteemed witness for not being here to hear the…”

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I want to thank you, sir, for appearing voluntarily without subpoena and standing or sitting there all by yourself.

It is not complicated if you are an elected member of Congress and all of a sudden Medicare recipients start showing up at their town, town hall.

My Texas pride doesn't need to be hurt by that, is what you are telling me.

There's a saying that a lot of us use quite a bit. It's called no good deed goes unpunished.