Joe Barton

If the Founding Fathers had had the Internet, instead of saying without the consent of the owner to put soldiers in your home, they would have said without the consent of the Internet user, they couldn't collect data.

Let me say on the siting issue that I think the Secretary made the right decision.

You can't regulate that. You can't mandate that.

The problem is not government guidelines. The problem is not knowing what is nutritious.

I hope at some point, Madam Chairwoman, that we will all agree legislatively to ban super cookies.

My position is that more and more of our teenagers and certainly even, sadly, children are getting iPhones and iPads.

If you don't expand the protections of the law to 13- to 17-year-olds explicitly, how do we protect them?

The legislation offered by Representative Joe Barton and Representative Ed Markey known as the Do Not Track Kids Act of 2011 is based on these principles.

I have served as a leading advocate for online consumer protection.

We all ought to be rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare...

The taxpayers lost $530 million... the President would have just gone line by line with the memos...

The President's budget was brought up in the Senate. Not one member of the Senate voted for the President's budget...

We have to stop spending money we don't have and we started to make that fiscally responsible decision...

In these challenging times when we are facing both rising deficits and a sinking economy, budget reform is not an option; it is an imperative.

I hope on a bipartisan basis we get to the bottom of this.

Again, Mr. Chairman, I am puzzled by the assertion of a right against self-incrimination, which the only obvious thing that changed is the occupant in the White House.

I don't understand what is self-incriminating about a yes or no answer as to whether the American people deserve to know what happened to over half a billion dollars of their money.

I want to ask Mr. Harrison if he thinks the American people who have invested over half a billion dollars deserve to know what happened to that money.

However, I am sure that the members of this subcommittee will still ask those questions so at least the American people, Mr. Chairman, know what questions should be answered.

The American people deserve an answer to that question, Mr. Chairman.

Let's set the scene. It is a sunny day in northern California.

The President issued an edict from the White House saying he wants to roll back regulations.

Over-regulation by the EPA's 18,000-plus employees could damage the economy.

The EPA has hurt jobs in Texas.

We are basically saying let us take a timeout until the economy can regain its footing...