Texas Republican Rep. Joe Barton on Thursday insisted that EPA Director Scott Pruitt had been a "victim" of Democrats because of news reports which accuse Pruitt of corruption. At a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Thursday, Democrats repeatedly suggested that Pruitt should resign over the reports, but many of the Republicans praised the EPA director. "You're not the first person to be the victim of -- for lack of a better term -- Washington politics," Barton told Pruitt.