96 Quotes by Joe Barton

What you see is not always what you get.

Updating the communications laws is one of my highest priorities. We have made some changes and we're going to make some changes to this draft.

Updating the communications laws is one of my highest priorities, ... We have made some changes and we're going to make some changes to this draft.

This would definitely limit states' flexibility, ... And again the underlying basis of the bill is to give states more flexibility, not less flexibility.

We use 21 million barrels of oil a day, and only have the refining capacity for 16 million on a good day, ... And after Katrina and Rita, we haven't had many good days.

Why in the heck don't we have a policy in effect today, once we found out we don't?

The president's package is a good package. We're going to work on a bipartisan basis.

We all know who will be the first to complain about natural gas prices this winter. And everybody here knows who will blame high prices on a corporate conspiracy, don't we? But the real conspirators seem to be New England and places like Fall River, Mass.

We cannot stop hurricanes, but we can mitigate some of these adverse impacts on our energy infrastructure and our economy that hurricanes can have. We need to tackle this problem for one simple reason: Our country needs more oil refineries because the people who work for a living need gasoline to get to work.