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U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, has released an implementation timeline on ObamaCare. Click here for a copy.

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Press Releases

Global Warming Reports From China, Others Are Old & Questionable, GAO Finds (August 4, 2010)

Chemical Bill a Sweeping Change from Current Law, Barton Says (July 29, 2010)

EPA Rushing to OK New Ozone Standards Costing Tens of Billions Annually (June 11, 2010)

Barton: We Can't Afford Another Entitlement Program (May 25, 2010)

Safe Water & Safe Taxpayers – How to Have Both (May 19, 2010)

Barton: Fundamental Flaws in Formaldehyde Bill (March 24, 2010)

Let’s Not Repeat the Lead Bill, Barton Says of TSCA (March 4, 2010)

Copenhagen Fact of the Day (December 18, 2009)

Senior Republicans Ask Waxman for Hearing on Climate E-mail Scandal (December 14, 2009)

Administration Asked to Detail Cost to Jobs, Economy under EPA Decisions (November 19, 2009)

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Letters

Response From EPA Regarding the High Costs and Job Impacts Associated With Regulating Greenhouse Gases (November 8, 2010)

Letter to GAO Requesting an Examination of the Use of Title 42 Pay Authority at HHS and EPA (October 28, 2010)

Letter to EPA Regarding the High Costs and Job Impacts Associated With Regulating Greenhouse Gases (October 14, 2010)

Response from EPA Regarding Proposed Ozone Standards (August 25, 2010)

Letter to Interior Secretary Salazar Regarding his Decision to Suspend Certain Offshore Permitting and Drilling Activities (August 6, 2010)

Response from the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality Concerning the Risk of New Regulations to Jobs and Economic Growth (August 2, 2010)

Letter to Chairman Waxman and Sutpak Requesting a Hearing on Possible EPA Document Destruction Related to the Omaha Lead Site (July 7, 2010)

Letter to Chairman Waxman Requesting a Hearing on the Budgets of DOE, DOC, and the EPA (July 7, 2010)

Letter to EPA Regarding Economic and Job Impacts of Proposed Ozone Standards (June 11, 2010)

Letter to Secretary Ken Salazar Requesting MMS Documents Related to Gulf Oil Spill (June 4, 2010)

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Republican Views

Republican Views on H.R. 5019, the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010 (April 30, 2010)

Executive Summary of Waxman-Markey Climate Legislation (April 22, 2009)

Section-By-Section Analysis of Waxman-Markey Climate Legislation (April 22, 2009)

U.S. Representative Joe Barton

U.S. Representative Joe L. Barton
Joe Barton was first elected to congress by the people of Texas' Sixth Congressional District in 1984. In 2004, he was selected by his House colleagues to be the chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce...
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