Joe Barton

The NRC should appropriately serve as an independent, strong watchdog, actually a pit bull, to ensure safe nuclear power.

Is it true that in March of last year, the DOE did file a motion with the NRC Construction Authorization Board to withdrawal the license application?

How can you have a vote and it not be publically known what the vote is?

I am confused. I am a simple guy. I try to read things black and white.

Simply shutting the doors on an already-spent $12 billion for Yucca is not acceptable, especially with no other alternative.

if the President wants to meet with Al Gore about global warming, that is not a national security issue.

You can't find that legislation no matter if you look high or low, you cannot find it because Harry Reid had a secret bill in his desk drawer.

I guess--I guess it is a surprise to the Obama administration that there's a Republican majority in the House, and we actually show up for work most weeks, Monday through Friday, and are holding hearings.

When you do things in secret, when you do things behind closed doors and don't have them vetted by the appropriate committees of jurisdiction, you could go on and on about the drafting errors in this bill.

the Congress and the people of the United States, in my opinion, have a right to know.

this administration promised to be transparent.

the purpose of transparency is so that people in the democracy know what those that are in power are doing.

I personally do not want to know all the meetings that the President and his National Security Advisors had about capturing and killing Osama bin Laden.

The fact that EPA continues to stand in the way is both inexplicable and unacceptable.

The timeline that EPA is proposing is unworkable, unreasonable, and uneconomical.

I do find it troubling that Lisa Jackson, once again, is a no-show at a very important hearing.

We could call them the Evaporating Personnel Administration, I guess.

That is why we need the EPA here.

Every 500 megawatt coal-fired power plant produces 3 pounds of mercury a year.

The question is, Is it worth the cost?

I want to ask every private sector individual here, I will start with Mr. Fanning. How many cases in your company were there last year of mercury poisoning reported?

They have had since November, the first Tuesday in November to get ready, Mr. Rush, and we have had a number of hearings.

These threaten our Nation's energy security at a minimum and our economic opportunity for sure.

I will stipulate that mercury is a poison and a pollutant and SO2 is a pollutant.

We cut SO2 emissions by 50 percent in the last decade, and this, if implemented, cuts it another 50 percent.