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
Our country needs more oil refineries because the people who work for a living need gasoline to get to work. These are the people who earn paychecks and buy groceries and pay their bills, including their taxes. That means they use gasoline every day. They need it, and they need it at a price they can afford to pay.
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.
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.
If there is a silver lining in this tragic situation, it may be that our country understands how fragile our energy sector is. ... We can't just get our oil and gas from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Gulf of Mexico. We need to diversify our domestic oil resources.
I think a good case can be made today that some retailers may have taken advantage of the Katrina emergency. If that's true, that is something that needs to be investigated and, in all probability, prosecuted,
I think there may be a need at the retail level to make sure we have adequate enforcement tools to prevent pure price gouging,
Our Velma Kelly is Jill Kelly - no relation - of Fort Wayne.
I tell my environmental friends that they have won, ... Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is looked at from an environmental perspective.
There are so many cars on the market that get 30 miles per gallon, and folks aren't buying them,
I would submit to you that Medicaid in its current form is already hurting the poor, ... This committee will not stand by and do nothing while Medicaid slowly collapses.
I would vote against it and I would encourage others to vote against it,
My cast comes from as far away as Fort Wayne and Toledo; they're willing to make the hour's drive just to be in it.
The president's package is a good package. We're going to work on a bipartisan basis.
Why in the heck don't we have a policy in effect today, once we found out we don't?