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A recent report by the Government Accountability Office, requested by committee Republicans, found that the Food and Drug Adminstration was slow to ban cheats and fakers from conducting research for the agency. For the report, click here.

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Friday, November 20, 2009

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today made the following statement on the House floor on H.R. 3961, the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009:   Read More >

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., today asked Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to explain how four rules, including the greenhouse as endangerment finding, would affect job losses in the United States.   Read More >

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., today asked Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu to answer questions about an internal department memo that indicates DOE is planning to halt all Yucca Mountain licensing activities in December 2009.   Read More >

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, today made the following statement at a Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet hearing entitled, “Universal Service Reform Act of 2009”:   Read More >

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Saturday, November 07, 2009

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today made the following statement on the House floor on the Republican alternative to H.R. 3962, Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill:   Read More >

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Saturday, November 07, 2009

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today made the following statement on the House floor opposing H.R. 3962, Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill:   Read More >

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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 >

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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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