Joe Barton: “If the answer to our economic problem is more regulation so that we get more people hired for compliance, we could go…”

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

If we did that and went to a pure market for ethanol, it would work.

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

I think it's good to have this and I think it's very good that we try to work to tighten up and, as the gentlelady just said, let's determine what the real intent is and then legislate accordingly.