Joe Barton

Second, you have to have a transmission system that has adequate capacity to deliver that supply.

First and most important is we have to have an absolutely guaranteed adequate base load supply.

And finally, you have got to have a retail framework that the customers consider fair.

We are going to have base load supply problems in Texas in the next 4 or 5 years.

I think there is work to be done on a bipartisan basis if we want to.

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

I have never had a question at a townhall meeting about an ISO or an RTO or any of the things that we have to do to make the system work.

I have been on this committee for 30 years. So I have lived through most of what you folks talked about.

May I inquire as to how much time remains. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Burgess) has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I want to thank the gentleman from Tarrant County and Denton County for offering this amendment. I am a cosponsor. It is unconscionable that we are using a provision in Federal law that was first passed during World War II to give a…

First, I think we should all recognize that this is a moment of tragedy in our great country. Our President and former President, as we speak here on the House floor, are in Dallas, Texas, at a memorial service for the officers who were…

I want to commend the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Michael F. Doyle). He and I serve on the same committee, and both of our staffs have worked well together on this game. Mr. Speaker, in 2013, the Republicans were outscored 22-0 in…

We have a Member from the other body who actually was one of our stars, Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona. So we appreciate him coming over. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, 5-minute voting will continue. There was no objection. The…

Does the gentleman understand that we are talking about people at EPA? We are not talking about public health in the HHS. We are talking about EPA.

If you do that, in all probability, a lot of consumers will not opt-in.

I am asking you if you would ask your staff to do something unusual which was to take a personal look at this and see if we can't resolve it.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And we have given Chairman Tauzin the big head.

I should have the right to know who is calling me and I make the decision whether I take that phone call.

The entire Nation is aghast and shocked and in mourning about what happened in Dallas, Texas, last evening. One of the officers who was killed was an officer named Brent Thompson. He was a constituent of mine from Corsicana, Texas, and was…

The federal government has an obligation to each and every taxpayer to spend the money with full transparency in accordance with the law.

We did it because folks at home in my state of Michigan, but frankly across the country and elsewhere, deserve to know how the government is spending their hard-earned tax dollars.

Without access to the information from the executive branch we cannot conduct the effective oversight.

For some reason, my time expired 2 minutes ago. I am going to have to chastise myself.

Ms. Castor has been indefatigable--it's a big word for a Texan--in her support of this legislation.

We just met with Mr. Trump this morning. He sends greetings to his fellow New Yorker, Mr. Engel.