Joe Barton

my father was a combat navigator in World War II. He flew a B-24 liberator on 50 combat missions. He won every combat award the Army Air Corps could award except the Congressional Medal of Honor. I am glad he did not win that one or I…

I want to call a time-out on some of our other debate for today and bring to the attention of my colleagues a young girl, 6 years old, named Emily Kim. Emily is very bright, very beautiful, and unfortunately, she is dying of leukemia. This…

I am going to support the rule, but I am very opposed to the self-executing portion of the rule that takes the nuclear waste fund and puts it back on-budget. We passed the nuclear waste fund to take it off-budget, both in the last Congress…

they asked a great American bank robber why he robbed banks. He said, that is where the money is. Well, why do we want to drill in ANWR? Because that is where the oil is. We have drilled three million wells in the lower 48. Two million of…

I rise in strong support of Sununu-Wilson. Even if you are against drilling in ANWR, you ought to support this amendment. It is a self-limitation amendment. It is like I came on the floor and said, The national speed limit is 70 miles an…

No other State has done what California does in taking interstate pipeline and downsizing the diameter so they could call it an intrastate Hinshaw pipeline. There is only one State that has done that, and it is the great State of…

as we do this energy debate on the floor today, we are going to have a number of California-specific amendments. We are going to have a California-specific amendment on price caps. We are going to have a California-specific amendment on…

Mr. Chairman, never have so many fine fellows from California been so wrong. It is good to have the California delegation unified for a change on the floor, but it would be better if they were unified on something that was actually a step…

I want to direct the Members' attention to the word that is carved in the cabinet that is right here before us. It cannot be read too well, but it is tolerance. I want to speak a little bit about tolerance, and I want to speak a little bit…

the recent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Friday was unanimous, three Republicans, two Democrats; the old commissioners, the new commissioners. It is a price mitigation strategy that lets the market work, but it does not let any…

I serve as the authorizing subcommittee chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce that has jurisdiction over the LIHEAP program. Earlier this year, we were trying to move legislation to help the West Coast with their electricity…

The great State of California has buy-cap authority today. If the Governor of California thinks that electricity prices are too high, since the State is buying all the wholesale power, all he has got to do is pick up the phone and call the…

There is a train of thought that this would be a surrogate system to put the United States at a competitive disadvantage vis-a-vis the rest of the world. Now, do not hold me specifically to these numbers, because I do not have some of my…

I want to clarify an aspect of section 3303 of the conference report which provides in part for the cleanup of uranium mill tailings from the former Atlas uranium mine. The bill language directs the Secretary of Energy to prepare a…

I want to point out once again, the Clinton-Gore administration supports passage of this bill. It passed the Senate by unanimous consent, which, if I understand correctly, there are 45 Democrat Senators in the other body. So this should…

I am a little bit puzzled at some of the opposition from the other side on this issue. My subcommittee held hearings on this legislation last year. My subcommittee passed the bill, I think, by unanimous consent out of the subcommittee. We…

My brother has told me one miracle. He had to undergo chemotherapy last year for his sinus carcinoma and he said he wanted it as strong as he could take it. So they literally took him to the verge of death with his first round of…

I have offered half of my liver. I am a little bit older than my brother, but I do not smoke and drink, so I am healthy, other than a lot of air miles back and forth to Texas. The problem with that is that his liver is so far gone and it…

my brother's attitude is such that he peps us up. It is amazing to me that here he is, because it is the liver cancer, he is very jaundiced and has difficulty moving now, and yet when we talk to him on the telephone or see him in person…

Yes. I am absolutely confident within 5 to 10 years it will be possible to take my brother's own bone marrow cells and probably grow him a new liver and put his own new liver into his liver; but that may be 5 or 6 years down the road, or…

the NERI R&D program at DOE is an innovative program to spur new thinking at DOE labs, the nation's universities and in industry. The NERI program represents a revitalization of the Department's nuclear energy research program. Begun two…

the University of Texas and Texas A&M have been playing football for over 100 years. It is one of the most intense athletic rivalries in the Lone Star State. In 1909, students at Texas A&M began a tradition that we now call bonfire. They…

section 157(a)(1) of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act is entitled Regional Petroleum Reserve. It gives the strategic petroleum reserve plan. It shall provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Regional Petroleum Reserve in…

I will be happy to commit to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Traficant) that I am planning to do a series of hearings on our energy policy in this country in the next month.

I have no greater respect for any Member of the House than I do for my distinguished friend from Michigan. However, I rise to insist on this point of order to maintain the prerogatives of the Committee on Commerce for which the former…