Joe Barton

I am not at all interested in hiding any relevant information from the American public.

Ms. DeGette said in her opening statement that she wants to get the facts on the table. That's what we're trying to do.

I would also point out that we've been trying to get the facts on Solyndra for about 6 months.

I would like to see Susan Richardson subpoenaed to be here because I want to find out exactly why she was putting a memo together like this.

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

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.

I think it is time that the Congress of the United States pass a strong, general, explicit privacy protection law.

Every week, Madam Chairwoman, we hear some other additional outrage about the abuse of the Internet.

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

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

I thank the distinguished subcommittee chairman. I listened with interest to Mr. Waxman's remarks. Sometimes, when there's not a lot you can say substantively against an issue, you just put a lot of stuff out there and hope something…

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

We've already reduced mercury emissions by 90 to 95 percent. To get another 90 to 95 percent is so cost prohibitive that you would probably just shut down some of those plants. In my opinion, that's not necessary. So what the TRAIN Act, in…

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

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.