Joe Barton

Isn't it true that you get almost no health benefit from the reduction--the new standards for mercury reduction?

Amen. We all want to work together.

If the answer to our economic problem is more regulation so that we get more people hired for compliance, we could go out and start hiring people to go rob banks.

The more regulation you have, the more compliance cost you are going to have, but you are going to have to hire people, but they don't produce anything.

I think, Mr. Chairman, that it is time for us now to try to deal--first of all, we have got to admit that we are a schizophrenic committee...

When you talk in your--I don't know if you talked in your testimony, but you gave us in an answer to a question, you just said that--you used the phrase 'real people.'

Mr. Chairman, could I defer at this point in time and let one of the other members who has been here ask questions?

The impact on mercury emissions is going to be so negligible that it will not have a measurable impact.

I do appreciate you for holding this hearing, you and Mr. Green, on the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard Program.

My time is expired. Mr. Chairman, I have one more question.

I want to pick your two gentlemen's brains on this consent-based approach that you talk about in your recommendations.

I think that is inexcusable.

But we fought and won World War II in less time than it has taken so far to evaluate this project.

Is it a socioeconomic factor that a project might bring thousands of high-paying jobs to a region?

So those socioeconomic factors might be the reason that until the radical environmentalists begin to protest...

I will say that she puts the best face possible on a terrible decision that her department has made.

Time and time again we hear about President Obama's commitment to American-made energy that creates jobs and reduces our dependence on foreign oil, yet he rejects a no-brainer like Keystone XL.

In the spring of 1981, I was applying for the White House Fellow's Program, which is a program where you work for the President of the United States for 1 year in one of the executive agencies like the Department of Energy or the…

I thank the distinguished policy chairman, and I thank the gentleman from Idaho for his evenhanded leadership in the debate. Mr. Speaker, I voted to send the Senate bill to conference, and I hope that both parties in both Chambers appoint…

I thank the distinguished gentleman from Nebraska. Mr. Speaker, we are here today to discuss a project that is of utmost importance to the American people. As the gentleman from Nebraska just mentioned, it's called the Keystone XL…

I thank the gentleman from Mississippi for yielding. One of the arguments that's been made about the EAC, Mr. Speaker, is that it's the Federal Election Commission that ensures every American citizen's right to vote. If only that were…

I thank the gentlelady from Alabama for her chairmanship of this historic debate, and I thank the gentleman from Virginia for his leadership and his willingness to yield me time. Madam Speaker, in January 1985, I held up my right hand, and…

Mr. Wolf, in your comments you repeatedly said gambling, you never once said poker.

The bill that we are hoping to mark up in this subcommittee deals only with Internet poker.

Poker is a game of skill.