Joe Barton

I think that we are going to have to change the law and that we are going to have to do more than require disclosure.

The current system is not working.

Should we make that an illegal act? When Chairman Walden says some pharmacy in West Virginia gets 11 million pills...

We represent the people of the United States. When you get a letter or your agency gets a letter from this committee that is signed by the chairman and the ranking member and maybe the subcommittee chairman, you are supposed to answer it.

I am going to recommend to the chairman that we bring the wrath of this committee down on DEA.

We had a hurricane in Texas too. We're a little bit more developed as a state, so our ability to endure it was possibly somewhat stronger.

I want to extend my personal welcome to our newest member, Mr. Duncan. He's an outstanding member of the Republican baseball team that I manage.

And it discourages me that Fermi 3, right now the license is there, the utility is not really thinking about using it at this point in time because of economics and politics.

Thank you for your service, and I look forward to following up on the rest of this.

We all want a good, robust energy policy, and nuclear policy for America.

If your doctor comes to the decision that all reasonable conventional therapeutic efforts have been exhausted in trying to protect your life and is willing to state that, and if the patient is willing to forego any legal lawsuit claims…

Even with the best of intentions the FDA still thinks they know better than the--than the doctor who's treating the patient.

Let's err on the side of the doctor/patient knows more.

But my brother died of liver cancer and they tried all the conventional therapies in the world on him and it just wasn't working.

Does this great new world that everybody is alluding to work in a regulated State?

Hopefully, it won't take us 45 years to move the bill, Mr. Chairman, and we can have a bill-signing ceremony.

Don't you think somebody at some point in time in your position, or somebody who reports to you, could have said maybe we need a few more people; maybe we need a lot of people; maybe we need to change the rules; maybe you don't need…

I mean, again, somebody in your agency has known for a long, long time this is a problem; a long, long time.

I mean--this--when you are trying to find a cure for cancer and all the other great things, I don't know that this is the most important priority at the FDA.

Texas has an open access market system in ERCOT. We deregulated our power generation.

This is an important hearing, but I don't think it will make the front pages.

I have got a number of federally qualified health facilities and DSH hospitals in my district that use 340B and it is an integral part of the care they provide to the low-income population.

We are strong supporters of the community health centers and SCHIP.

We want to talk about CHIP reauthorization and community health centers.

I am a little bit late getting back.