Joe Barton

Well, you might check it out because some of the benefits and some of the costs you talk about are not borne out in the real world when you do a real analysis.

Would Mr. Waxman agree with me that, if you get one of these new squiggly mercury bulbs and break it, you're going to be exposed to more mercury than the amount of mercury you're exposed to from a cement plant?

So much to say, so little time. Mr. Chairman, first, let me point out that CO<INF>2</INF>, the greenhouse gas that is most under discussion, is not a pollutant under the classical definition of the Clean Air Act. I am creating…

Every independent analysis has said it would cost millions of U.S. jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars.

Who can be opposed to that, Mr. Chairman?

Just the regulations issued under the new health care law are in the thousands.

Congressional oversight, if effective, leads to better functioning of government, one that protects the taxpayers.

The importance of congressional oversight cannot be overstated.

I don't see that your organization has done anything to slow that down.

If the gentleman would yield, common sense, we are beginning the redistributing process now, and the State of Texas is going to gain four additional congressional seats which means our population between 2000 and 2010 has increased…

I just want to make one nonscientific comment. I flew this morning from DFW Airport up to Reagan Airport to attend this session of Congress. The DFW area is home to approximately 3 million people, to a number of power plants, lots of…

The gentleman is correct again. So here you have a State that is noted for its State regulatory protection regulations at the State level; and yet that State has one area, the Los Angeles basin, that has been in the worst category for…

The gentleman is correct. Name the State that has the largest net out-migration from its State to Texas?

Those of us who support this initiative support it because we believe you can have improving air quality and improving water quality and increase jobs and economic output. It is not an either/or. It can be a win/win. But if we adopt the…

I want to keep reiterating, air quality in Texas is improving. It is improving. The Clean Air Act gives the Federal Government, through the Environmental Protection Agency, the right to preempt States when the States either don't implement…

If the gentleman would yield for another question, name a State that has one of the more rigid, restrictive, so- called protective environmental regulatory schemes in the Nation?

I have been in the Congress 26 years. I have been on the Energy and Commerce Committee 24 years. I have been a congressional observer or delegate at large to all the major global warming climate change conferences, or COPS, council of…

Mr. Speaker, we are here today because the existing law of the land on health care is fatally flawed. Most of us think it is unconstitutional. We think it is overreaching. We think the Federal Government is intervening more and more into…

Otherwise, I think it makes the best case possible based on a reasonable interpretation, supported by the restructuring policy arguments.

Judge Tom Vandergriff was a Member of the House of Representatives from January 1982 until December 1984. He was defeated for reelection in November of 1984 by Dick Armey, moved back to Texas, and switched parties from the Democrat Party…

I rise for two reasons. One is to support this bill. I actually thought it had passed and become law because we pass it every Congress, and it goes to the other body and falls in the black hole over there. So it is good to know they are…

I expressed the same concerns that Mr. Terry expressed, but because of the policy implications of the bill, agreed that it should be supported. I told him that I would encourage the Republicans on the committee and in the full House to…

I was a White House Fellow in the class of 1981 and 1982 under President Ronald Reagan. I was one of 14 Fellows that year. I worked for the Secretary of Energy, the Honorable James Edwards of South Carolina, the former Governor of South…

I think all that needs to be said has been said; so let me simply say that this is a problem that needs to be dealt with. I compliment those who negotiated the 1-year fix. Hopefully, in the next Congress, we will work together--and I mean…

The current system is not sustainable. It doesn't work. It doesn't reflect the practice of medicine. But because of our score keeping, we keep getting further and further behind and so each year the 1-year cut gets bigger and bigger. This…