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
If you want to see real shortages and a black market, then put price controls back on,
I'm a free-market guy. I come from an oil state. I am not anti-oil, by any stretch. But I don't want to see people get ripped off just because they're scared and retailers think they can just jack up the price.
I'm very disappointed to learn that, four years later, we still have a problem with interoperability,
In 1981, there were 324 operating refineries in the boundaries of the United States. Today there are 148. Do the math. There are a lot of reasons for it, but one of the reasons is the law as it exists today, ... What company's board of directors in its right mind would want to go through this complicated process and tie up billions of dollars for years and years if they weren't certain whether this process would wrap up in a timely fashion?
How I vote on final passage right now is between me and my maker.
It sure looks to me like you got in control of the guild, got all your cronies on the board, you did everything you can to keep the guild members in the dark about the lack of an insurance policy about on-track injuries until it was obvious you had to say something. ... If I were a dues-paying member of the guild, I'd want new management,
Then Hurricane Katrina hit, and energy is back on the agenda big time,
It is unfortunate that it takes a hurricane like Katrina or Rita to show us just how acute the problem is. Now is the time to start to correct this problem and build more refineries in the United States.
It's important that the American people have full confidence in the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Zerhouni has done an admirable job addressing a difficult, yet critical, issue.
They look at it like trading futures, trading oil, trading gas, trading corn -- pick a commodity.
It's a travesty that we even have to have this hearing.
So far, a lot of it has been vague but they are now going to flesh out the details.
At a minimum, we want to see some on-track catastrophic insurance in place as soon as possible for on-track injuries, ... and then we want to go from there to start cleaning up this.
You've done not a darn thing except to obfuscate and not obey the subpoenas of this committee,