Today's Press Clips & Gasoline Price News
Friday, July 18, 2008
For news of energy and commerce, including the cost of today’s "Pelosi Premium" gasoline, click here.   Read More »

Republicans Ask Speaker to Allow Vote on Accessing American Energy
‘Can you imagine what an act of Congress, signed into law this year, to develop millions of barrels per day in Alaska, the Intermountain West, and in the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf would do?’
Thursday, July 17, 2008
WASHINGTON – House Republicans, led by U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today wrote to Speaker Nancy Pelosi asking her to allow the House of Representatives to vote on increasing American supplies of energy.   Read More »

Barton Supports Animal Drug User Fee Bills
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following statement today as part of committee markup of H.R. 6432, the Animal Drug User Fee Amendments of 2008, H.R. 6433, the Animal Generic Drug User Fee Act of 2008 and H.R. 2851, Michelle’s Law:   Read More »

GAO Report Finds Los Alamos Security Problems Still Not Fully Addressed
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
WASHINGTON – Key lawmakers today released the first of a two-part Government Accountability Office report stemming from a litany of cyber and physical security problems at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, keeper of some of the nation’s most secret nuclear weapons information.   Read More »

Bush Offshore Decision an Invitation to Congress to Solve Gas Price Problem
Barton: ‘Energy policy needs to be less about blather and more about producing all the American-made energy that we can’
Monday, July 14, 2008
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement today in response to President Bush’s expected lifting of the executive ban on offshore drilling:   Read More »