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.
I can only guess at the excuses that will be offered by people who profit by engaging in an obvious fraud, by invading personal privacy, and by assisting criminal behavior.
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.
People don't want Congress dictating what light fixtures they can use.
You're torn between 'Take care of the people that need taking care of, period' and doing it in a way that doesn't break the bank.
If there is a silver lining in this, it is that it may finally bring home to the American people how fragile our energy sector is and our energy infrastructure is.
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.
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.
Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
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,