Joe Barton

I am very proud of my public record and the many accomplishments of my office. It has been a tremendous honor to represent the 6th District of Texas for over three decades, but now it is time to step aside and let there be a new voice.

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.

If we start - premise that the information is mine, and we give the individual's rights, we worry about what happens during a breach. If you try to protect access to it, as opposed to not even making it available, you have less to worry about who will break the wall.

There's no way you should try to send somebody back who came here as a child with their parents and who's grown up here in the United States. They're Americans.

Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.

I'm very proud to be a member of the Congress. And I'm proud to serve with people like Mike Doyle.

CO2 is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term.

It affects you when you get shot at, when your children get shot at. In our case, we had one shooter, a guy from Illinois mad that Trump won, and decided to come to Washington and shoot GOP congressmen.

Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.

Texans are by nature independent people.

I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.

I believe the earth's climate is changing, but I think it's changing for natural variation reasons and I think mankind has been adapting to climate as long as man has walked the earth.