Joe Barton

I had to use a wireless provider to get my hard line phone fixed.

I remember discussing how we could make the marketplace more competitive.

I want to thank you for holding this hearing on the transition of the Internet Protocol.

It is a legitimate function of government to ensure that everybody is connected and has the ability to communicate.

It might have worked for 1996, but that world doesn't exist today, so let's figure out what exists today and in the future.

Our job is to do the very best we can to give our consumers choices.

What they want is something that works, that is efficient, and that is cost competitive.

There will not be a vote.

Before I yield to Mr. Stockman, I want to apologize to the House for reading into the Record comments from citizens of the United States exercising their First Amendment rights. One of those citizens made a disparaging remark about the…

I don't think that the people of the United States of America consider electricity to be a luxury good.

If you can't heat your home effectively in the wintertime... that can affect your health.

These are hardworking men and women who are out there trying to do jobs.

If the Obama administration has this great Climate Change Action Plan, every one of these questions should be able to be answered in detail and in glowing terms.

We asked nine questions. We didn't get one straight answer. Are you trying to hide something?

Now, Mr. Waxman has been asking this committee and the subcommittee to hold hearings on President Obama's climate change efforts all year long.

I want to welcome our two witnesses and give you the red badge of courage for showing up.

I really hope we can come up with a way to bring the regulatory scheme if we need one into the 21st century.

The laws that are on the books had no conceptual ability to foresee what is now happening in the marketplace.

By definition, regulation stifles innovation and I think by definition we can all assume that the more innovation we have in the telecommunication marketplace, the better off the country will be.

They will all tell you this thing is a train wreck, I am going to probably drop my health insurance because I have to compete.

It costs me, I have heard the minimum is $6,000 per employee, per year, minimum.

Every single time I go to a small business they have all said--Congressman, I have a plan to get rid of health insurance.

The Obamacare will shatter not only our hard-earned benefits, but destroy the foundation of the 40-hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class

I voted against this every time I could.

I hear small businessmen saying that they are not going to be able to provide the coverage.