Joe Barton actually said...

The chairman, who is an honorable, decent man, who has been in my office a number of time and I have great admiration for, appears to me to be playing some sort of a foot-dragging game--that is my characterization--because he thinks on June the 30th, he is going to apparently get a new Commissioner that apparently agrees with his position and can then issue this order.

05/03/2011

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