Friday, December 03, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today asked the Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski to explain the exclusion of less-than-laudatory comments in a document his staff has been circulating.   Read More >

Friday, December 03, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Michael Burgess, R-Texas, ranking member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, today asked Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg about the agency’s new policy banning employees from owning family farms.   Read More >

Friday, December 03, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Fred Upton, R-Mich., ranking member of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee, today asked Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar asking for information related the agency’s plans for new regulations on hydraulic fracturing.   Read More >

Thursday, December 02, 2010

Memo to the 112th Congress: Want to fix what’s wrong? It’s really simple and really difficult: Spend less, balance the budget, grow more.   Read More >

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., today asked the Federal Communications Commission chairman to explain how the agency has discovered legal authority to regulate the Internet in the Communications Act of 1934.   Read More >

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

With a new congressional session comes a recycling of the old proposal to raid the jurisdiction of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. This seems a bizarre moment to advance the idea that a group, which didn’t stand up to the Barack Obama-Nancy Pelosi axis on its radical energy and environmental initiatives, should now take over the work of the committee that did. (Rep. Doc Hastings’s Opinion piece, “One Energy Panel Better for Nation,” POLITICO, Nov. 22)   Read More >

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today wrote to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke once again requesting information about stimulus funding and salaries paid to employees at the department.   Read More >

Monday, November 29, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today asked Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick asking him to brief Republican members of the committee since he has not yet been given the opportunity to testify at a hearing.   Read More >