Tuesday, February 09, 2010

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Friday, February 05, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., ranking member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, on Thursday wrote to the head of the Health Resources and Services Administration asking how the agency is working to prevent fraud within the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program.   Read More >

Thursday, February 04, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., ranking member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, today wrote to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson asking her for information related to the peer-review process and scientific objectivity underpinning the agency’s endangerment finding on greenhouse gases.   Read More >

Thursday, February 04, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, today made the following statement at a Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet hearing entitled, “An Examination of the Proposed Combination of Comcast and NBC Universal”:   Read More >

Friday, January 29, 2010

Mary Schapiro never uttered the word “Madoff” a year ago, in her first public speech as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Now Ms. Schapiro is once again forcing investors to ask whether she understands her mission.   Read More >

Friday, January 29, 2010

Aren’t We Trying to Create Jobs?

Based on an economic model developed by Christina Romer, Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the employer mandate found in Sections 411 to 413 of H.R. 3962 could cost up to 5.5 million jobs.   Read More >

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, made the following statement today at the beginning of the committee’s consideration of H.Res. 983, a resolution asking the White House to provide details on any deals made with health industry groups in May 2009:   Read More >

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., ranking member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, today wrote to Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro regarding plans under consideration by the commission to call for corporations to be required to explain how they are alleviating global warming.   Read More >