Joe Barton
Joe Barton
Joe Linus Bartonis a Republican politician, representing Texas's 6th congressional districtin the U.S. House of Representatives since 1985, and a member of the Tea Party Caucus. The district includes Arlington, part of Fort Worth and several rural areas south of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Following the primary defeat of Ralph Hall, Barton became the dean of the Texas Congressional delegation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 September 1949
CountryUnited States of America
The constant abuse of online activity must stop.
I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.
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.
CO2 is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term.
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.
More refineries will result in more domestic production of gasoline. We cannot stop hurricanes but we can mitigate some of the adverse impacts.
More refineries will result in more domestic production of gasoline.
Medicaid is a victim of its own success. The program has grown so expansive that it is unsustainable in its current form, ... The reforms we are offering on Thursday will help to save the program while at the same time protecting the poorest of our society.
Let the market work. Competition will drive investment.
Let's wait and see how this all turns out. I don't think we are quite ready to say what Net neutrality is.
Many retailers do not disclose these restrictions. There are no national rules dealing with how gift cards should work.
There's no need to panic about this, ... On the other side, there's no reason for retailers to just jack up the price because everybody's concerned. We're going to move very quickly to stop that if we have the legal ability to do so without passing emergency legislation.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 spurred the development of telephone competition, but no one could have foreseen the magnitude of the challenges and opportunities that the Internet age has presented, ... New services shouldn't be hamstrung by old thinking and outdated regulations.
Enactment of this legislation by December would give us three years to prepare for the transition, ... That is more than enough time for manufacturers and retailers to move low-cost digital televisions and converter-boxes into the market, for the FCC to complete the channel allocation process, for broadcasters to finalize their digital facilities and for government and industry to prepare consumers for the transition.