Joe Barton

I do expect the FCC will follow the law, including maximizing the proceeds from the auction.

A broadcast incentive auction that fails to raise the revenue needed for these projects or that unnecessarily gives away billions in cleared spectrum will be considered a failure.

We have a job to clarify the law if there is not clarity in the law, and we can easily do it.

I want to be explicitly clear. If there really is a regulatory gap--based on the record that I have reviewed, I don't believe there is.

What is very clear is that you don't want to answer the question.

We have a tragedy of significant proportions here. Thirty-two people have died; probably more will.

Can you ever give a straight answer to the question?

I think we ought to work on using the authority that we have, as opposed to trying to get additional authority at the Federal level.

It is an absolute tragedy without any question that 32 people have died, and it is very unlikely that that is going to be the end of the death toll.

You can take a regulator to a problem, but you can't make it regulate.

I am a big supporter of nuclear power.

I hope that when the EPA gets around to my five refineries and chemical plants in our district that they would let us have the same grandfather clause.

That is not may be true; it is true.

I do not think is a fair and balanced playing field.

Joe Biden, the Vice President, has said that this administration does not support clean-coal technology.

It is clear to me that Title 42 has been used as a substitute pay scale.

And nobody begrudges what he is paid. I certainly don't. I have absolutely nothing but the highest esteem for him personally and professionally.

What I am opposed to is using a provision that was originally intended for short-time, special consultants to fill specific critical needs being used as a substitute pay scale.

I am not opposed or on some jihad to people who want to work in government service at HHS or NIH.

He didn't state it, but he said that this might be about politics. Well, it is not.

The ranking member, my good friend from New Jersey, Mr. Pallone's opening statement I thought was very good.

Thank you, Chairman Pitts. And I want to thank you and your staff and Dr. Burgess and his staff and Chairman Upton and his staff and my staff for working so diligently on this issue.

I then have deregulate and discover.

I think it is important that we recognize that nobody is planning on drilling on the site where the Flight 93 crashed.

I will tell you that in my district, we lost 620 coal jobs.