Joe Barton

I support everything he said.

UIGEA in my opinion is unenforceable, needs to be reformed.

The bill I have introduced is a States' right bill and it allows the States to make the decision.

I do share that sentiment with Chairman Waxman.

If there is no subordination and a company goes bankrupt, which Solyndra did, then the taxpayers get repaid first.

What guarantees do we have on behalf of the taxpayers that changes are going to be made in the existing loans?

Rarely, if ever, have I seen a more mismanaged program than the Solyndra loan guarantee.

If you don't subordinate this loan guarantee and Solyndra goes bankrupt, the taxpayers are first in line to be repaid.

I do think you're a man of integrity. I think you're trying to do your job as the best that you can.

Nowhere in the law, nowhere in the definitions does it say that that program is to subsidize the loss of principle.

If you're asking me the question, yes, sir, I think he broke the law.

Why did the Obama Department of Energy reverse the Bush Department of Energy decision that the Solyndra loan guarantee was not ready for prime time?

I have a letter from Alfonse D'Amato that was written to you on November 7, 2011.

I want to thank the sponsor of the bill, Mr. Terry, for yielding some time to me even though he knows that I am in opposition to his bill.

I hate to be the Republican that spoils the garden party, but the current system is in place for a reason, and that reason is that people do protect and want to protect their privacy.

I just want to thank you for taking this time to speak on this subject. I think it's commendable that you would do that, and I think you're exactly right. I would encourage you to keep telling the truth as you know it. And how proud we are…

I want to thank the most valuable player for the Republican baseball team this year for the time. I want to commend Mr. Doyle, the manager of the Democratic congressional team, for his victory, and commend Mr. Clay, Congressman Clay, whose…

EPA back in 2006 suggested that we shouldn't regulate farm dust. I wish the EPA would dust that proposal off and institute it instead of even thinking about regulating farm dust.

I want to refocus. You know, we are kind of letting the tail wag the dog here.

Poker is the all-American game. President Richard Nixon financed his first congressional campaign partially with poker winnings from World War II.

What we want to prevent is somebody using it unfairly, and in a real-world situation when you walk into the casino, you can't take a pocket computer with you.

If you don't want to let the citizens within your boundaries play poker for money on the Internet, you simply opt out so they can't play.

Now, you can get 1,000, 2,000, so anybody with any sense at all who--to use your term, Professor--a recreational poker player, you are going to be an absolute idiot to go online and get into a high-dollar poker game.

I want to thank Chairwoman Bono Mack for having this hearing.

I have introduced a bill as the chief sponsor to remedy this, and two of my cosponsors are Barney Frank and Ron Paul.