If the answer to our economic problem is more regulation so that we get more people hired for compliance, we could go out and start hiring people to go rob banks.
Joe Barton
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Joe Barton is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 6th congressional district from 1985 to 2019. During his tenure, Barton served as the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where he played a significant role in shaping energy policy and telecommunications legislation. He was known for his advocacy of fossil fuel interests and his support for deregulation in the energy sector.
I think, Mr. Chairman, that it is time for us now to try to deal--first of all, we have got to admit that we are a schizophrenic committee...
the more regulation you have, the more compliance cost you are going to have, but you are going to have to hire people, but they don't produce anything.
I think that these companies who did not take--see the writing on the wall, did not take this Congress seriously...
Mr. Chairman, could I defer at this point in time and let one of the other members who has been here ask questions?
Isn't it true that you get almost no health benefit from the reduction--the new standards for mercury reduction?
When you talk in your--I don't know if you talked in your testimony, but you gave us in an answer to a question, you just said that--you used the phrase 'real people.'





