Joe Barton

This is causing a problem in the market, in the generic drug market. This is one of the reasons why prescription drug prices are so high.

Not everything in the Affordable Care Act was bad. I know that is a shock for my friends on the minority side to hear a Republican say that.

It is called voters. It is called elections. You control who your governor is.

What is the expected cost? Is the problem the crumbling water lines or is the problem reprocessing or processing of the water supply?

You can have both. You can have positive economic development and effective environmental protection.

Time after time Tribes have seen their treaties broken, their lands taken, and sacred sites desecrated.

So, it is not just the right thing to do, based on our historical experiences and historical traumas with Native Americans, it is the law.

I want to reiterate again that the workers are caught in the middle of this failed system.

I am also told by my staff that this particular pipeline has complied with every State and Federal environmental review and all the various permitting requirements.

We need to move electricity from where it is generated to where it is consumed.

If you are going to have a nation that grows and an economy that grows, we are going to need more transmission lines.

Whatever your energy needs are, America has it.

I have been on this committee 30 years. I missed the memo apparently where it said we were trying to gut Medicaid, destroy the program.

If you divide 325 million into 20 trillion, you get about 66, 67 thousand dollars that every American owes of the national debt.

Our national debt is about $20 trillion, give or take a trillion or two.

Well thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am glad to be a part of the first oversight hearing.

I believe I could trust Mr. Harper and the State of Mississippi to guarantee the catfish I eat, if it is not in Texas, if I don't catch it myself, is safe for me to eat.

I personally think we could repeal the CAFE standards in their entirety.

I simply want to say thank you for your service to the country. You've always been available to the members of the committee.

I think it is doing very well and I am very happy that we have brought balance to the world oil markets by repealing the ability of our domestic producers to export.

I think it would be worthwhile to look at privatizing.

There is a couple words that come to mind--negligence, incompetence.

The Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, is fundamentally flawed. It can't be fixed and is imposing unsustainable, ever-increasing costs on Americans including my western New York constituents.

The Chair recognizes the ranking member of the full committee, Mr. Pallone, for 6 minutes and 11 seconds.

I foresee real difficulties. I can't fit them together. I don't know how that is going to work.