Joe Barton

I wanted to clarify some things with the author of the amendment. Does your amendment deal specifically with the complaint adjudication process with regards to antitrust laws and the jurisdiction of the courts to hear such cases?

I wish to propound a parliamentary inquiry. I would like to yield 10 minutes to my Democrat sponsor, Mr. Rush, to control in the general debate in the Committee of the Whole. Is that possible, or how might I do that? The CHAIRMAN. The…

in that case, I yield 2 minutes on behalf of Mr. Rush to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gonzalez).

So I can't do it. The CHAIRMAN. Under the rule, the gentleman from Texas must be the one to yield the time, and the Chair cannot entertain a request to change the scheme for general debate from the established by the special order of…

I wish to yield 4 minutes to another distinguished member of the full committee on Energy and Commerce from the great Granite State of New Hampshire (Mr. Bass).

I do not want to delete it, but I am willing to clarify it if you are willing to vote for the bill.

You write it. This is not a bogus offer. We are not trying to do the nefarious intent that you claim we are, and if we can work out the parliamentary language so that it does not violate some rule of the House, I will take an amendment…

I ask that this exchange of letters be included in the Record during today's debate on H.R. 5253. U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Washington, DC, May 3, 2006. Hon. Joe Barton, Chairman Committee on Energy and…

I would look at it and see if there's something that is patently not needed, sure.

I think the energy bill that we passed is a good piece of legislation.

But we are questioning the judgment of the Justice Department of the United States of America who seems to think they can thumb its nose at the Congress of the United States. And that will not happen.

But I'm fed up with this.

No. ``Identical'' is defined to mean that minor differences in wording are acceptable so long as they do not alter the underlying meaning of the provision. So, for example, Federal law provides that a food is adulterated ``if it contains…

I want to thank you and thank my friend from Michigan for offering the motion to recommit. Let me say right up front that I don't want to eat anything that has been sitting in the refrigerator for 5 months that hasn't been cooked. Nobody…

Yes. If the State's food adulteration provisions are identical to the listed Federal provisions and there is no Federal tolerance or limit, the State may apply its law either by regulatory action or State legislative enactment. All that…

If the FDA has not established a tolerance or limit for a particular poisonous or deleterious substance in food, the State is free to make its own determination of what quantity of that substance should be held to adulterate the food. If…

I want to propound a parliamentary inquiry. I have no more requests for time, and I am going to close. I have a colloquy I want to enter into with the gentleman from Washington State, Mr. Inslee. Can I use this time for that colloquy? The…

last Thursday evening I had an event occur that at the time my thought was, why me, Lord? But as I stand here this evening, I actually can say it is one of the greatest blessings of my life because since that time I have learned how great…

I want to make a couple of very quick comments on the process. I had the privilege to attend a National Governors Association Conference early last spring on the issue of Medicaid reform, and Subcommittee Chairman Nathan Deal was with me…

Reclaiming my time, I have the utmost respect for the gentleman from Michigan. But at that first conference with the Governors there was not any package on the table. We were talking concepts. There was no package on the table. It was just…

Would these refineries operate continuously, around the clock, or would they only operate when the President has declared an energy emergency?

We do not have in the manager's amendment the words ``unconscionably excessive.'' We do not have the words ``gross disparity.'' I am not disputing the intent. I understand that. I do question the advisability of putting that in statute…

But the strategic petroleum reserve is a reserve that you take crude oil and store it so if we need it you bring it up and transmit it to refineries to be refined into refined products. A strategic refinery reserve, as I understand it in…

I want to engage in a short colloquy with the gentleman from New York (Mr. McHugh) concerning LIHEAP funding. Mr. McHUGH. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?

So reclaiming my time, Mr. Speaker, if they were up 250 percent, that would not be unconscionably excessive?