Joe Barton

You recommended and I support the recommendation that you made to the President that we withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement.

So do you deny now that fine particle pollution has these health impacts, and will these new regulations cause your Agency to disregard these sentinel studies?

Revealing that info is a clear ethical violation of any reputable research institutional review board in the United States.

Clean air to breathe and safe water to drink is not a privilege only for the rich and powerful but a right for everyone.

You got picked to be the EPA Administrator because of the service you provided for the great State of Oklahoma in fighting some of the Obama administration radical clean air policies.

Nobody can say ethanol is a struggling startup industry anymore. So you don't really need all the protection, the mandates, the quotas that we have today.

If I were still chairman, I would be in a wrestling match with Chairman Shimkus because I would be repealing the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I am here under protest. I don't do getaway hearings, and I darned sure don't do hearings that start at 9 in the morning.

People need to know that you are here voluntarily. You are not here because you have been subpoenaed, so we appreciate that.

Is there any reason that we couldn't have just a no-data-sharing policy period until you are 18?

It is such an integral part of certainly young Americans' lives that you need to work with Congress and the community to ensure that it is a neutral, safe, and, to the largest extent possible, private platform.

Facebook does tremendous good. ... That is a success story in anybody's book.

I stand corrected. I can't blame that on the Senate, then.

Now, you're aware that we passed a bill that's languishing, I believe, in the Senate that would change the law...

Well, thank you. More importantly, I am the current vice chairman, such as that is.

This is a difficult hearing because I think everybody has the same bottom line.

According to the latest numbers that this committee staff has, 115 people a day are dying of opioid overdoses.

So far you have done a very good job of dissimulating and not saying a darn thing so----

This is an important hearing that we are having today because it addresses an issue that we really haven't done a very good job of addressing--this issue of cybersecurity and emergency response.

We seem to be more up to date in our private sector infrastructure than our public sector infrastructure.

I do believe there's a legitimate public interest certainly in the permitting and licensing part of these big infrastructure projects.

Congress keeps trying to do the right thing in healthcare. We've adopted two policies that we thought were positive, but in terms of cost they don't seem to have helped much.

You know, there's a saying that people like myself that run for public office and have been around awhile kind of live by, and it's called 'no good deed goes unpunished.'

The bill that passed out of this committee is a long-term permanent solution, bipartisan.

I would like to still be in Congress when we actually fund it. And as your current Secretary said famously back in Texas, let's get on down the road.