Joe Barton

Hopefully, the gentleman from Hawaii and I, together, can overcome him. I do support the gentleman's amendment at the appropriate time.

I said mild opposition because it is exactly what it is. I chair the committee of jurisdiction that would have this amendment, and we have been working with the Congresswoman from Connecticut to try to perfect her amendment. She has been…

I sincerely respect the intent of the authors of the amendment. I am just trying to point out that even on a cursory examination, there are things that were just kind of hastily put together. They have not been vetted. The underlying bill…

Mr. Speaker, today the Energy and Commerce Committee brings its first major bill of the 109th Congress to the floor, H.R. 310, the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005. This legislation makes great strides in making it safe for…

I am reluctantly doing this this evening, not because of the merits of the bill. I support the merits of the bill, but I do not support the procedure under which we are doing this and the reluctance of the other body to find a way to help…

my amendment expresses the sense of the Congress that the way to get valuable spectrum promptly into the hands of public safety officials without shutting off consumers' televisions is to enact comprehensive, hard-deadline digital…

Current law authorizes direct broadcast satellite operators, such as DirecTV and EchoStar, to provide the signals of distant broadcast network stations to a consumer who cannot receive an over-the-air signal from the local network…

Mr. Speaker, let me in summary again commend the gentlewoman from Colorado (Ms. DeGette), the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell) and all the folks on the minority side that worked with us on this. I want to thank again the gentleman…

I think we have seen in this debate not just the bipartisan support but the unanimous support this bill has. Whether my colleagues represent metropolitan New York City or the suburbs of Chicago or the hurricane-ravaged plains of Florida…

I am not opposed to the underlying substance of the amendment. My objection is to the procedure, and the way in which it has come forward in order to implement it in its current configuration would cause a major problem down the road in…

I think the policies in the bill are a fair compromise between those who think all stock options should be expensed and those who think no stock options should be expensed. The gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Oxley) and the gentleman from…

the Senate recently joined the House in passing one of President Bush's top legislative initiatives for this Congress, Project Bioshield. The House passed a similar bill in July 2003 by a strong bipartisan vote of 421 to 2. I want to…

The number of refineries in the United States of America has been reduced from 324 in 1981 to 153 today. That is over half the refineries have been closed in the United States since 1981. That is fact number one. Fact number two, refining…

Mr. Speaker, the demand for gasoline and other refined fuels in the United States currently exceeds our domestic capacity to produce them. Domestic gasoline consumption is expected to rise by an increase of over 4 million barrels per day…

Mr. Speaker, this bill which has been called a mishmash is the most comprehensive package of energy legislation that has been on the floor of the House of Representatives in almost 50 years. It touches on all aspects of energy production…

I wish to say as I rise in opposition that I am in total support of the Dean of the House, the gentleman from Michigan, in his efforts to help develop a comprehensive energy plan for our country, but I cannot support this particular motion…

I would agree with him in the short term that that is probably correct, that if we pass this bill and the other body passes this bill and the President signed it tomorrow, I think it is fair to say that the energy prices would not go…

I was driving down to Corpus Christi last Saturday afternoon with my wife, Terry, and her daughter Lindsey and her cousin Jackie and Terry's family for a brief family vacation when my staffer Andy Black called me on the telephone and said…

I share the frustration that the gentleman has with the other body. If we could work together to get Members from the other body on both sides of the aisle to vote for cloture, and as the gentleman well knows, regardless of who controls…

Mr. Speaker, let me say before I give my prepared statement that I too am embarrassed that this issue is on the floor for the sixth time in so many months because the other body is yet to do anything about it. It is past time that we…

I am in support of this rule. The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004, H.R. 3717, has overwhelming bipartisan support. H.R. 3717, which was adopted on a vote of 49 to 1 by my Committee, increases the Federal Communications…

If we look at the marble slab behind the Speaker's rostrum, it starts out with the quote, ``Let us develop the resources of our great land,'' and it goes on in some detail. That is by Daniel Webster. If there was ever a time that we were…

there are some bills that come before this body that are showhorse bills. They are full of glitz and glamour and lots of slogans and sloganeering. Some bills that come before this body are workhorse bills. They are full of common sense and…

I also understand that the renewable fuels definition under section 1501 of the conference report includes ethanol tertiary-butyl ether, or ETBE.

But they are not actually using any of those fluids in the site preparation? They are not doing a test run where they put those kinds of fluids in?