Joe Barton

These safety and security incidents show very clearly the need for strong and robust oversight from this committee and others of security issues at our nuclear facilities.

If there is ever a time for more aggressive oversight, this is it.

The Accountability in Grants Act would prohibit any more American tax dollars from being used under Section 103 of the Clean Air Act for purposes outside of the U.S.

The economy is still struggling, although it is somewhat better, this Congress is facing some of the most difficult spending decisions in our history.

It is difficult to see for these grants that they are required by law or necessary or what the compelling public need is, at least for American citizens.

Taxpayer dollars should be spent on projects that have an obvious benefit to the American people and these foreign grants do little, if anything, to benefit Americans.

It is difficult for me to see the value of EPA providing taxpayer funding grants to organizations and governments outside the United States for things such as 'good governance capacity-building' in Jordan or 'regulatory dialogue' on…

There have been tens of thousands of wells in Colorado that have used hydraulic fracturing to increase their productivity, and we can't find anywhere in Colorado a single example of the actual process of fracturing that has polluted…

This is a hell of a way to do business.

I just carry around Bobby Rush-is-my-friend cards and I have never had a problem on the streets of Chicago.

I support the U.S. Agricultural Sector Relief Act of 2012 and I tend to support the Asthma Inhaler Relief Act of 2012 also, although I have got some concerns about that piece of legislation.

If it were allowed to be sold, it would be around $20?

I don't think this committee is going to afford the relief that quite frankly our agriculture community needs.

Methyl bromide is essential as an agricultural fumigant. There are some alternatives for agricultural uses, but methyl bromide is still needed for others where there doesn't appear to be a viable alternative.

I do think Dr. Burgess has a good idea here. If we can work with the community so it is not two to two, we may have a bill that actually goes somewhere.

I don't see any real prospect of getting relief through the Montreal Protocol.

I see just nothing but trouble coming from this legislation.

Dr. Burgess has got a well intended piece of legislation.

If the goal is to reduce foreign imports, then we look at natural gas as a transportation fuel.

Make no mistake, the EPA does have a coal on war--a war on coal.

The NSPS proposal would essentially prevent any new coal-fired power plant from being constructed.

a disturbing number of EPA's supposedly independent Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee were also recipients of Federal research funding.

I would hope on a bipartisan basis one thing we can agree on is that we are not going to allow subordination.

Don't insult the common sense of the American people.

There has never, until this loan, been a taxpayer-backed loan that was subordinated.