Joe Barton

All three would be good committee members. So if you and I don't do a good job, we are probably going to get booted.

I want to compliment the non-committee congressmen and women that are here. They don't have to be here.

I don't think I will take 5 minutes, Mr. Chairman. I do want to compliment you on holding this hearing.

I think it is--although you are outnumbered, it certainly doesn't mean you are outmanned, so to speak, because of the issue.

Many people look at what we are doing or not doing in Washington and say, those guys don't get it.

I don't see why you couldn't reopen the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act and say unless the Federal Government can show failure, then the State should be preeminent.

We have air quality and water quality laws because the last 100 years, the people and their representatives to Congress have decided that the market wasn't working.

I want to thank you for showing up.

Let me compliment Congressman Bilirakis and Mr. Ross.

You should give deference to the State in terms of how to implement and the timelines for implementation.

I think it is fair to say also that we should recognize that those standards should be based on real scientific data.

What the EPA is attempting to do here in Florida with regards to water quality is very similar to what the EPA is trying to do in Texas with regards to air quality.

The Obama EPA administration is trying to reset the balance between State regulation and Federal regulation, with an emphasis that Washington knows best.

In my judgment, providing more fuel supply for our refineries would liken the possibility that prices would go down.

The medical device review process at the Food and Drug Administration in my opinion has become overly burdensome, unpredictable and inconsistent under its current leadership.

The issues that we are discussing today have the ability to harm our sick, inhibit innovation and stifle domestic economic jobs and growth.

Reclaiming my time, I do want to recognize the Republican MVP, who did get a legitimate hit, Steve Pearce of New Mexico. And I will point out to my friends on the minority side that this victory last night, while it is the third in the row…

But apparently that is all they did. They really didn't change their business model and it appears to me that Google has adopted a model of saying one thing in Washington and doing another thing in their business practices.

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman.

I believe we need to take steps to put privacy back into the personal realm and take it out of the consumer marketing opportunity realm.

I have been an advocate for privacy for almost 20 years in the Congress.

If you have Joe Barton and Ed Markey on a bill, you pretty well covered the political spectrum not only of this committee but of the Congress.

Privacy is not a partisan issue, and I do believe, as he said, that it is time to act.

What one person considers rationing, another might refer to as reducing excessive growth areas of Medicare.

This isn't government by the people. It is instead government by the bureaucrats.