Joe Barton

If Congress were to explicitly strip Planned Parenthood funding, are there other women's health organizations already in existence that could accept those funds and provide the same services?

Is there any medically necessary reason to utilize that procedure to get a body part to use in another medical situation?

That is not what this debate is about. This debate is about a procedure that Planned Parenthood utilizes to take body parts and sell.

I don't know why we wouldn't pass the bill to let the market operate and let people choose. What is wrong with that?

As I understand it, if you have, under current law or old law, 50 employees or less, you don't have all the mandates and you basically set your insurance... based on what you can afford.

I support Yucca Mountain as a final repository. So there is no daylight between Chairman Shimkus and myself on that.

I am not asking for the Obama position, I am just asking generally, if you are open to an interim storage proposal.

I will say it is refreshing, Mr. Chairman, to hear people say that it is a policy question for the Congress to address.

I would like to see them helped in some way, if at all possible.

Let's come together. Let's vote for something that we can all be proud of so that we can tell the parents of children with autism that there is hope and there is a future. Vote ``yes.'' Please vote ``yes.''

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Chairman, if you look up here at the podium right behind me on the Republican side, what do you see? Carved into the balustrade is the word ``liberty.'' If you look on the Democratic side, what do you see? You…

I want to thank the Member from Texas for that generous introduction. Mr. Speaker, 4 years ago, I went to then-Majority Leader Eric Cantor and committee chairman Fred Upton and asked permission to create a task force, a bipartisan task…

I just think we have to be very careful that we don't do something in the short term which, while it may benefit certain actors in the United States, private industry, in particular in the oil industry, that we, not as my colleague from…

I believe the current crude oil exports restrictions are also standing in the way of real economic and geopolitical benefits.

Exports may help oil companies, but will they really benefit consumers?

Shouldn't we consider a fee on exports to ensure all Americans benefit from the exploitation and exporting of the natural resources?

There is no urgency to do this.

This is an important issue for me obviously.

This bill is good policy for both economic and strategic reasons.

I think if you listen to the witnesses, especially my good friend, Ambassador Gandalovic from the Czech Republic, you will see the absolute positivism of repealing this ban.

One point that I want to make is America is a trading county. We don't need to or should we get to zero imports before we export.

Why wouldn't we be talking about taking this excess light sweet crude and tooling up our refinery capacity to keep it here in the United States?

legislation like the LNG Permitting Certainty and Transparency Act that passed the House back in January which helps America harness our natural energy abundance by requiring DOE by law to act on pending LNG export applications in a timely…

We have lost 20,000 jobs and yet we have it underneath our feet, and we can't get it because we don't have a place to take it to.

I think that we can slow this process down.