Joe Barton

this rule is the greatest thing since sliced bread and it needs to be implemented immediately to protect public health and safety

I believe the States are a very strong partner and a lead regulator on this.

I want to associate myself with most of what Chairman Dingell said.

coal ash waste does have beneficial uses

I don't give out many stars to the EPA.

Wouldn't it be better to work with the States to come up with a pond impoundment improvement program?

This is an important issue. It is not on the front pages right now, which is a good thing.

We have a hearing upstairs where apparently everybody at EPA is on vacation.

I am going to be very interested in your comments on the PREDICT model.

I thank the distinguished subcommittee chairman. Madam Speaker, when I came to Congress in 1985, there was no such thing as a cell phone. I remember my first mobile phone was a box phone. It cost about two bucks a minute to use, as I…

I thank the distinguished chairman. I rise in strong support of this bill. I would like to make a few comments. First of all, the bill before us doesn't change one sentence or one paragraph in the Clean Air Act. It doesn't change anything…

I thank the distinguished chairman for the time. Well, let me say something positive about my good friend from Houston, Texas's amendment before I say something negative. If it were to pass, it would at least force the EPA to do a real…

As we have seen in my home State of Texas, medical malpractice reform can work.

My dear sweet sister-in-law, Carol Anne Beaver, went to be with her Lord on Saturday, March 26, 2011. She passed away in her home near Lockhart, Texas, following a long and valiant battle with cancer. She is the first of four daughters of…

does Washington have the power to seize these States' permitting authority?

this isn't a choice between clear air and jobs. Texas is achieving both.

Mr. Commissioner, under the--under the--if greenhouse gas regulations were to be implemented and you did not have a Tailoring Rule, how much of Texas agriculture would be subject to the Clean Air Act?

I think they're people of good conscious, and they want to enforce law--both the State and the Federal law.

I have yet to find one that substantiates what you said in your testimony, that the Texas Flexible Permitting program is not transparent, it's not enforceable, it doesn't comply with the Clean Air Act.

There is not one letter on the record where TCEQ has had a flexible permit rejected.

Madam Administrator, am I correct in that the disagreement between Texas and EPA on greenhouse gases is a separate issue than the disagreement between Texas and EPA on their flexible permitting program under the other terms of the Clean…

I don't see any irreconcilable issues here.

In that--that's a sworn affidavit and in that affidavit, at the end of the affidavit, she says that not only with regard to Texas, but I think with regard to any State, the EPA is not going to--to use a slang term--FIP a State program.

I'm a strong proponent of strong environmental protection. I was a co-sponsor and voted for the Clean Air Act in the early 1990s.

Food security is a part of national security.