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Friday, November 06, 2009
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today asked Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak, D-Mich., to hold a hearing on Medicare and Medicaid fraud, which now costs $60 billion a year. Read More >
Friday, November 06, 2009
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today made the following statement before the Rules Committee on H.R. 3962, Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill. Read More >
Friday, November 06, 2009
WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Nathan Deal, R-Ga., ranking member of the committee's Health Subcommittee, today released this Dear Colleague about H.R. 3962 and its giveaway to trial lawyers. Read More >
Thursday, November 05, 2009
WASHINGTON – Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Joe Barton, R-Texas, today made the following statement on the House floor against H.R. 2868, the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009: Read More >
Thursday, November 05, 2009
WASHINGTON – Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee today submitted an amendment to the Rules Committee that include amendments accepted in the committee’s markup and later dropped in H.R. 3962, the latest Democratic health care bill. Read More >
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
WASHINGTON - House Democrats, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have released their latest version of government-run health care, a plan that costs more than $1.2 trillion. The Republicans’ alternative solution focuses on lowering health care premiums for families and small businesses, increasing access to affordable, high-quality care, and promoting healthier lifestyles – without adding to the crushing debt Washington has placed on our children and grandchildren. Read More >
Friday, October 30, 2009
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, today sent a letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman asking for a hearing on the latest Democratic health care bill, H.R. 3962 to give members and the public an opportunity to understand the legislation and its implications. Read More >
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