Joe Barton

The States are doing most of the work in actual environmental protection on a day-to-day basis.

This kind of innovation should be encouraged by local and federal agencies and these agencies should maintain oversight throughout the process...

Texas has chosen to regulate hydraulic fracturing, but to allow it.

The recognition that it is the states rather than the feds that can best regulate their domestic oil and gas productions...

I find it disingenuous for the Federal Government and in particular the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) to think that they are the only ones that can do this effectively.

I think that is the best way to do it.

You keep saying ``another great Texan.'' That's redundant. If you say ``Texan,'' it's assumed that they're great.

As a fuel source, though, do you use a lot of natural gas in your foundry?

I love to be recognized, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.

Which country is number one right now in CO2 emissions, the United States, or China?

Are CO2 emissions in the United States up or down?

I am a co-sponsor of your legislation, and I hope we will move to----

I double down on what Mr. Poe said. This is the committee that when the Internet first got started...offered the amendment that passed that we would have no regulation of the Internet here in the United States and no taxation.

So you don't see any national security issues if we were to license LNG facilities?

For the United States to sign this treaty would be absolute absurdity.

When I was chairman of the full committee, we passed a bill called the Energy Policy Act of 2005...

I happen to agree with that.

I think that if we can solve that issue satisfactorily, the sky is the limit.

The domestic energy boom is good news--but only if we are wise enough to let it happen.

We want to maximize revenue for deficit reduction, we want to maximize reallocation of spectrum for new uses...

I would encourage the Commission and the staff and the members of this committee to keep an open mind on this because we have conflicting goals.

I personally believe it is not fair at all that the end result is that a low power television station that has been a good licensee ends up totally off the air.

I want to compliment the chairman, who is not here, for the new seats up here on the dais. They are very comfortable.

I would like a commitment that the Commissioners will honor the language of the act that requires guard bands to be, and I quote, 'no larger than is technically reasonable to prevent harmful interference between license services outside…

Markets, not the whims of regulators, are best-suited to ensure that spectrum is put to productive and innovative use.