Joe Barton

Our most vulnerable cannot afford these prices on top of an already weak economy that only created 88,000 jobs last month.

As policymakers, our job is to ensure America can take full advantage of our nation's valuable resources by unlocking the power of our innovators and entrepreneurs.

It boggles most people's minds when they look at this from a commonsense perspective and say why does the President continue to say no to Keystone?

It is time for Congress to come together and help make Keystone a reality by approving the Northern Route Approval Act.

Even the Obama administration's State Department concluded in its Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that the project poses minimal environmental risks.

But these jobs can't happen unless Keystone XL gets built.

I would hope that we would schedule a vote and bring it to the floor and let's get it out of committee and get to the floor and have a vote and send it to the Senate.

I thank the gentleman from Georgia. Mr. Chairman, there are a lot of reasons that I rise in strong support of the Republican Study Committee budget. It repeals ObamaCare. It repeals the death tax. It repeals the alternative minimum tax. It…

I was proud to vote for him this past November.

We want you to be successful. But there are a few of us, at least me, that have some grave doubts about this.

I want to commend you and Ms. Eshoo for holding this hearing. This is an example of the committee at its finest.

I am quite frankly skeptical of this whole concept. I would not have designed the legislation the way it was designed.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing today.

We have had repeated security incidences at the weapons complexes in the national laboratories over the last 20 years.

I especially want to commend Congresswoman DeGette. She has been fighting these fights almost as long as I have.

I have served in Congress and on this committee for over a quarter of a century...

I am a big proponent historically of wind power.

Let us be honest. You are not going to build a coal plant with those regulations, and you will build, probably, almost all natural gas.

I want the record to show that we had a witness say I was exactly right.

Yes, where they still have the regulated markets and you can roll in the prices.

Now, we could have given everyone of Mike Doyle's constituents $25,000, and I bet they would have been able to go out and find some sort of broadband.

If you spend or are obligated to spend over $7 billion you darn sure better help somebody.

We don't need the program. We don't need it. It is not that it is a bad program.

What would be the harm of just rescinding the funding that has not yet in been spent saying game over, save the taxpayers $2.5 billion.

I don't doubt that for a minute. I don't doubt that for second.