Joe Barton

I think this is a positive step today, the fact that we have got a draft bill on No More Solyndras. It is a good bill.

I would slightly diverge from the party line to say that I don't necessarily think we have to throw the baby out with the bath water.

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.

Helping veterans with emergency medical training transition to civilian service, this is a discussion that is long overdue.

I thank the distinguished chairman. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of the bill before us this afternoon and in opposition to what is colloquially called ObamaCare. All of the comments of the proponents of the bill that have been…

Our veterans should not have to completely redo the medical training that they have already received in the military to receive civilian certification.

I think this is a win/win.

This demonstrates the absolute dangers of Federal intervention in energy markets.

Biofuels should and can play an important role in a balanced energy portfolio.

As some of you who actually went to the game noticed, at about the fourth inning, Pete Sessions, our first base coach, and Tim Scott, one of our pitchers, who are both on the Rules Committee, had to leave to go back to Rules. Now, there's…

Thank you, Congressman Doyle. There are a few things you said, like most Democrats, stretching the truth a little bit. You know, you said that there are only 21 outs in the game. Well, we being very generous and open-hearted Republicans…

heavy restrictions on collection

I first want to take a little victory lap this morning. The college presidents announced yesterday we are going to have a non-BCS football playoff in college football, and I can take a little bit of credit because back when I was chairman…

I think it is time to review the telecommunication video market.

I think we have got the answer to what to do about our deficit. We will just do a special tax on Chairman Waxman's rich people in his district.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I wasn't planning on speaking on this bill. But I was listening in my office to the debate between the proponents and opponents of the bill and felt moved to come over and try to answer some of the…

This same Dr. Armendariz made a comment not too many years ago that he wanted to crucify industry. He has since resigned because of those comments. Those of us who support the McKinley motion to instruct do so because we don't think the…

I thank the distinguished chairman. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this bill. When the American public asks, ``Why can't Congress just work together?'' we should hold this bill up as Exhibit A that it is possible. As the ranking…

Unfortunately, in the last few years, we have not been able to give NIH those sorts of additional resources.

The NIH is the gold star for medical research in the world.

So, on average, these small increases in average global temperature, which is called the greenhouse gas effect or climate change, from a health standpoint on average would be good not bad.

I was here in the Congress on this committee when we passed the Clean Air Act amendments in the early 1990s.

I do not believe that a temperature difference of somewhere between 6 thousandths and 15 thousandths of a degree centigrade is going to make one iota of difference in any individual's health on this planet between now and the year 2100.