Joe Barton

In my District, we are going into old fields and trying to extend the life of those fields, and on occasion, believe it or not, they do scrape up $10- or $15-, $50,000, get a lease, go out and actually try to drill a new well. It does…

Does the gentleman know anybody in west Texas, in his district, that thinks that dirt that gets wet is a pollutant? Wet dirt caused by rain raining on the drilling site, is there anybody in west Texas that thinks that is a pollutant, wet…

I do not want to belabor the debate. Let me just in summary, before the gentlewoman closes, point out that while the gentlewoman is from the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and I am also, this is not a local Dallas-Fort Worth issue. These court…

This is not about changing the goal post at all. The same standard is in effect. We are not changing the standard. We are simply saying if they are trying to comply, and one of the reasons they are not in technical compliance is because of…

What the pending proposal with the other body would do is simply and very narrowly in the States that are part of the agreement with the EPA on NOx, and there are 17 States, most of them east of the Mississippi, if those States have a…

this policy built upon the 1994 statutory interpretation memorandum that we have just put into the Record. And it indicated that the EPA considered its bump-up policy to be a fair reading of the act. Now, what happened after this 1994…

I will put into the Record data by the Texas Environmental Air Quality Commission that shows the monitoring in Ellis County has not exceeded one time the standard, not one time. Now, there are monitors in Arlington, Texas, that have, and…

I think that agreement that the gentleman alluded to in the Constitution was one of the biggest mistakes in the Constitution.

I would oppose the Capps amendment on the first part because of the open-ended nature of that particular procedural aspect of it. On the second part of the Capps amendment that deals with this inventory, you can make an argument, if we…

I will not be long-winded. Let me simply say, we do not oppose the Inslee amendment on the motion to instruct the conferees. We are prepared to accept it. We think it is an amendment that has merit, obviously, as we have heard from the…

natural gas prices at the wellhead are over $5 or approaching $5 a thousand cubic feet. The motion to instruct by the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell) does absolutely nothing about that problem. Gasoline prices are averaging $1.50 a…

I strongly object to directive language being placed within H. Rept. 108-235 since this language has not been subject to regular order and process in the committee of jurisdiction.

I strongly object to report language regarding regional transmission organization, RTO, matters in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC, section of H.R. 2754, the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year…

Mr. Speaker, I really did not plan to speak on this bill, but some of my good friends on the minority side from Texas have been up talking about alleged abuse of funding or power in terms of homeland security officials attempting to find…

as Paul Harvey says in his radio broadcasts, Let us hear the rest of the story. My good friend from the State of Texas (Mr. Frost) from the 24th district has been expounding on potentially how unfair that particular redistricting plan that…

I might point out that this is also supported by the National Hydropower Association. The title on hydro relicensing that is in the bill that is before us does not waive anything of the Endangered Species Act. It does not waive any part of…

I rise in support of this Reynolds amendment, but I am really standing to just say in closing in the overall energy debate this is the most comprehensive energy legislation that has been on the floor of the House, I would argue, in the…

We are probike, and we rise in full support of this amendment. It passed the House in essentially the same form last year in H.R. 4. House and Senate conferees, however, did not reach resolution on this issue or other vehicle and Energy…

first I want to thank the distinguished gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown) for graciously, and I mean this, providing us copies of the amendment. The majority staff had the odd page copies but not the even page copies. So we appreciate it…

first I think we should point out that the Committee on Rules made in order the Dingell amendment as a substitute, as a substitute for the electricity title. We should commend our chairman on the Committee on Rules for doing that. Having…

Mr. Chairman, the Dingell substitute is not a substitute. It may be well intentioned where it does address, but out of 10 titles, it addresses 1½ titles of the electricity title. We should reject it and adopt the compromise bipartisan…

February 12, 1973, I was a graduate student at the Krannert School in Purdue University up in West Lafayette, Indiana, just another day for me; for Lieutenant Colonel Sam Johnson, it was the first day he had been able to breathe free air…

When I was growing up in Texas, one of the things I thought about being was an astronaut. But there are so few that not many of us get to actually have that kind of a dream. This past Saturday, six American citizens and one Israeli citizen…

Is it the gentleman's intention that once we adjourn for this week or weekend, that we do not come back until the next Congress?

we all stand in this Chamber once every 2 years in January and hold up our right hands and take an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America and defend our great Nation against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That…