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		<title>Press Releases from the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Republicans</title>
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		<description>All Press Releases released by the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Republicans, within the last year.</description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Today's Press Clips]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7173</link>
			<pubDate>20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Administration Asked to Detail Cost to Jobs, Economy under EPA Decisions]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7558</link>
			<pubDate>19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Medicare ‘Doc Fix’ Bill a Sham]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘This is nothing more than a repayment to the AMA for endorsing the larger health care bill’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7559</link>
			<pubDate>19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Walden Ask DOE Secretary Chu to Explain Plans to Shut Down Yucca]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7557</link>
			<pubDate>18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sparks? Sure, but No Ring Yet – Barton]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Universal Service Fund Reforms]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7553</link>
			<pubDate>17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton Warns of Health Care Cuts in Pelosi Bill]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘It’s going to create … a two-tiered health care system – the public system for most of us and a private system for the elites’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7545</link>
			<pubDate>7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republican Plan Will Reduce Health Care Costs for Families, Barton Says]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘There is a choice. Bigger government, more mandates, more control, less freedom – or lower costs, more opportunity, more freedom, more choice’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7546</link>
			<pubDate>7 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton Asks Waxman, Stupak for Hearing on Medicare, Medicaid Fraud]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Looted federal dollars now costing taxpayers $60B a year]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7544</link>
			<pubDate>6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Dems' New Health Bill Covers Fewer Citizens, More Illegal Aliens]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Rules Committee urged to reinstate 8 GOP provisions that vanished]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7543</link>
			<pubDate>6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Stimulus for Trial Lawyers]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7542</link>
			<pubDate>6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Chemical Facility Bill Has Nothing to Do with Protection from Terrorism, Barton Says]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘This legislation refuses to honor common sense when simplistic ideology seems to offer a quick return on a political investment’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7541</link>
			<pubDate>5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republicans to Re-Offer Provisions Dropped from Health Care Bill by Pelosi]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7540</link>
			<pubDate>5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Links to Health Care Bills]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7524</link>
			<pubDate>4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton Proposes Hearing with Sebelius, Elmendorf On Pelosi Health Care Bill]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7532</link>
			<pubDate>30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Creating Super Regulator Wrong Response to Financial Crisis]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7525</link>
			<pubDate>29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Meet the New Bill, Same as the Old Bill]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘Write it in private, withhold it until the last moment, and then rush it through before people know too much’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7522</link>
			<pubDate>29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republican Bill Gives FDA Teeth To Ban Researchers Convicted of Crimes]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Barton, 7 co-sponsors introduce legislation]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7501</link>
			<pubDate>27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[GAO: FDA Slow to Ban Cheats, Fakers from Conducting Research for Agency]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[One doctor spent five years in prison before being ‘debarred’ by FDA; Barton to introduce legislation]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7491</link>
			<pubDate>22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Mercury Bill ‘An Abuse of Power;’ Chem Plant, Water Security Bills Not Anti-Terrorist]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7476</link>
			<pubDate>21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Citing Recession, Barton Asks FCC to Halt Net Neutrality Rulemaking]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7472</link>
			<pubDate>20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama Administration Wonders Why Teens, Guns & Alcohol Don’t Mix]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The 'day-follows-night quality of this question and its potential answer' will cost $642,561]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7458</link>
			<pubDate>19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Helping the Underinsured Should Be Part of Broad Health Care Reform, Barton Says]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7455</link>
			<pubDate>15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton Supports Passage of Telecom, AIDS Funding Bills]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7451</link>
			<pubDate>15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Chemical Plant Bill Is Environmental Law Disguised in Security Clothing, Barton Says]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘Terrorism is not an environmental issue’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7445</link>
			<pubDate>14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Radanovich Ask JP Morgan Chase About Recent Data Breach]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7412</link>
			<pubDate>8 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Committee Republicans Ask HHS IG to Investigate Heavy-Handed Censorship]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘The CMS decision with respect to Humana appears contrary to the First Amendment and past CMS precedent’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7397</link>
			<pubDate>1 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dems Retreat from Environmental Attack on U.S. Jobs]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[10% unemployment at 3 of 4 target cities; Bill ignores China mercury in U.S. seafood]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7391</link>
			<pubDate>30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[DATA, Peer-to-Peer Bills Will Bolster Consumer Protection, Barton Says]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7389</link>
			<pubDate>30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Capping jobs, trading in misery — wrong answers to global warming]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Hill Op-ed]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7395</link>
			<author>Rep. Joe Barton</author>
			<pubDate>29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Walden Ask NIH for Details of Money Spent on Questionable Studies]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Studies like ‘Patterns of Drug Use and Abuse in the Brazilian Rave Culture’ don’t seem to fit within urgent public health issues facing the NIH, lawmakers say]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7380</link>
			<pubDate>25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: When FCC Fails on Spectrum Auction, Try, Try Again]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[On D-block auction, ‘not listening, the FCC went forward anyway and botched the auction’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7377</link>
			<pubDate>24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton Decries Dawdling Dems' 'Govt.-by-Emergency' on Medicare]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘Leadership doesn’t know what seniors have known for the last six months’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7378</link>
			<pubDate>24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republican Amendment Package Responds to American People, Barton Says]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7368</link>
			<pubDate>23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republicans to Offer Amendment Package That Makes Good on Obama Address to Congress]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7367</link>
			<pubDate>23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Reform Plans Are Out of Sync With Reality]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Roll Call op-ed]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7358</link>
			<author>Rep. Joe Barton</author>
			<pubDate>21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Walden Ask EPA to Explain Unusual Pay Authority for Employees]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Use of HHS statute would give EPA authority to pay people more than U.S. vice president]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7357</link>
			<pubDate>17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wireless Industry the Model to Follow on National Broadband Strategy, Barton Says]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7354</link>
			<pubDate>17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Walden Press NRC Chief on Slow-Walking Nuclear Plant Licenses]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[One application might be OK’d by 2012?]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7353</link>
			<pubDate>17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Committee Republicans Again Ask Administration for Medicare Fraud, Waste Data]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7352</link>
			<pubDate>16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton Asks GAO to Review NIH’s Use of Stimulus Funds]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7350</link>
			<pubDate>11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Economist Ike Brannon Joins E&C Republicans]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7349</link>
			<pubDate>11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama Says No Deficits, No Drain on Medicare, No Abortions, No Illegal Aliens…Oh, really?]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Health care fact check]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7348</link>
			<pubDate>10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Agencies Must Prioritize Projects to Improve Broadband Access]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7351</link>
			<pubDate>10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton on CPSIA: We Need Common Sense, Not a War on Small Business]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘We can do something about these unfortunate and unforeseen problems, and we can do it without more partisanship if we can begin by recognizing that what so many people are telling us is the truth’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7344</link>
			<pubDate>10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New AIDS-Funding Bill Should Be Bipartisan, Barton Says]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7341</link>
			<pubDate>9 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: President Could Do with Less Talking, More Listening on Health Care]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7340</link>
			<pubDate>9 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Radanovich Ask to Hear from Victims of Consumer Product Safety Bill’s Overreach]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7339</link>
			<pubDate>8 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Health Care Fact of the Day: Democrats Want Government Care For You, Not Them]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7256</link>
			<pubDate>31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republican Amendments to H.R. 3200, the Democrats' Health Care Bill]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7332</link>
			<pubDate>31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sweetheart Deals May Help Government Health Plan Kill off Private Competitors]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7316</link>
			<pubDate>31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Democrats Oppose Dangerous, 'Discriminatory' Healthy Living]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7311</link>
			<pubDate>31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[H.R. 3200, As Passed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7331</link>
			<pubDate>31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[No Extra Help for Breast Cancer Patients, Democrats Decide]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7322</link>
			<pubDate>31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Congressional-Style Health Insurance for Everybody (in Congress, That Is)]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Dems turn aside bid to offer congressional coverage to rest of America]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7314</link>
			<pubDate>31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rep. Weiner’s Playtime]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7306</link>
			<pubDate>31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[E&C Democrats Pass Government-Run Health Care]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Committee OKs Medicare cuts, tax hike & illegal aliens; who’s Chicky?]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7327</link>
			<pubDate>31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dems Sustain $500 Billion Medicare Cut; ‘Don’t Be Scared’]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7318</link>
			<pubDate>31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dems Stand Up for Insurance Plans in Wrongful Death Cases]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7309</link>
			<pubDate>31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dems Win 35-24 Vote for Government-Run Health Care]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7299</link>
			<pubDate>30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Democrats Refuse to Stop Tax Hike;‘Bring it on, Chicky’ – Rep. Weiner]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7289</link>
			<pubDate>30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Upton Introduce Nuclear Recycling Bill]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7288</link>
			<pubDate>30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Democrats Vote Down Plan to Encourage Doctors to Take Medicare Patients]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Stand by for ‘baseline adjustments,’ they say]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7284</link>
			<pubDate>30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Gov’t-Run Health Plan May Provide Abortion]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7303</link>
			<pubDate>30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Constituents, Not Congress, Will Be on Government Health Plan]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7300</link>
			<pubDate>30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Illegal Aliens on Medicaid: Dems Ditch Citizenship Requirement by One Vote]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7295</link>
			<pubDate>30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Health Care Facts of the Day]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7250</link>
			<pubDate>27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[GOP Unveils 12-Point Rx for a Healthy America; Barton Predicts Dem Bill will Fail if Speaker Meddles]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7279</link>
			<pubDate>24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republicans Ask Locke to Explain Administration Position on Americans Making Amends to World for Global Warming]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Secretary’s stance in Shanghai blames U.S. consumers; proposes that they pay extra for carbon in imports they buy]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7276</link>
			<pubDate>22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How Congress’s drive to stop global warming is fueling China’s drive to out-compete the U.S.]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Hill Op-ed]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7274</link>
			<author>Rep. Joe Barton</author>
			<pubDate>22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Democrats Reject Trillion-Dollar Deficit Cap]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Health bill spending for bike trails, jungle gyms deemed important disease ‘prevention’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7272</link>
			<pubDate>21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton and Burgess: A better remedy for health reform]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Dallas Morning News Op-ed]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7275</link>
			<pubDate>20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA['Excuse me, this is not a program. This is to establish a grant (pause) opportunity.'  — U.S. Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif.]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Scenes from a Markup]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7271</link>
			<pubDate>20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Feds to Dictate Health Insurance for Local Govt. Workers; States, Cities that Refuse Instructions Will Lose Funds]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Q. Could states be required to provide an abortion benefit?
Democrats Say ‘Yes, sir.’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7268</link>
			<pubDate>20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dems Refuse to Bar Bureaucrats from Playing Doctor]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Committee holds ‘bureaucrat-patient relationship’ equal to doctor-patient ties]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7269</link>
			<pubDate>20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Energy & Commerce Republicans Lead Bipartisan Win on First Roll Call Vote of Health Care Markup]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Obama administration instructed to find, end duplication of expensive grant programs]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7252</link>
			<pubDate>17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Massive Government Takeover Won’t Fix Health Care]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘It seems to me that if you like the convenient hours and smiling service you get at the driver’s license office or the post office, you’re going to love going to the government when you get sick’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7237</link>
			<pubDate>16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republicans Demand EPA Administrator Jackson Give Full Response on Suppression of Dissent]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘Why was Dr. Carlin directed to cease his work on climate change?’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7229</link>
			<pubDate>16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Walden Ask HHS for Fraud Data in Medicare, Medicaid]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7203</link>
			<pubDate>14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Democrats’ Health Bill Is Bad Medicine for Americans, Barton Says]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7210</link>
			<pubDate>14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[We’re Investigating Bottles of Water Instead of EPA?]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘I hope that after this hearing you will consider…getting information about the EPA suppression of documents…regarding CO2 and the endangerment finding’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7176</link>
			<pubDate>8 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama Administration Asked to Detail Money Spent on Health Care vs. Bureaucracy]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[President’s promise of ‘low cost:’ established & effective policy, or public-option politics?]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7178</link>
			<pubDate>8 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton Presses Democrats to Discover Cost of Their Health Care Bill]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘Health care for Americans is too important to be given the rush job by this committee’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7177</link>
			<pubDate>8 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Have You Heard? WSJ: The EPA Silences a Climate Skeptic]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The professional penalty for offering a contrary view to elites like Al Gore is a smear campaign.]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7170</link>
			<author>Kimberley A. Strassel, The Wall Street Journal</author>
			<pubDate>3 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lawmakers Ask GAO to Look at Cost of Financing Future Government Debt]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7167</link>
			<pubDate>1 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Have You Heard? WSJ: The Climate Change Climate Change]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The number of skeptics is swelling everywhere.]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7168</link>
			<author>Kimberley A. Strassel, The Wall Street Journal</author>
			<pubDate>1 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Draft of Report Suppressed at EPA Shows Why Agency’s Career Staff Challenged CO2 Endangerment Ruling]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘We have become increasingly concerned that EPA and many other agencies… have paid too little attention to the science of global warming’ -- EPA staff]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7158</link>
			<pubDate>26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Global Warming Bill Will Send U.S. Back to 1875]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7159</link>
			<pubDate>26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Walden Ask Committee Democrats to Investigate on EPA’s Suppression of CO2 Report]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7151</link>
			<pubDate>25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Suppressed EPA Staff Work on EPA Endangerment Finding? Let’s Get the Facts Out!]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7150</link>
			<pubDate>25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton Confronts EPA Politicals Over Suppression of Economist’s Critical Report on CO2 Endangerment]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Barton, others to discuss issue at 12:30 p.m. news conference on Thursday in House Radio-TV Gallery, H-321]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7148</link>
			<pubDate>24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Another Bill, Another Chance for Bipartisanship Lost, Barton Says]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Democratic government-run plan: $3.5 trillion, 38 new mandates, dozens of new bureaucracies]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7145</link>
			<pubDate>24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lawmakers Ask CBO to Analyze House Health Bill]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘The Democrats’ legislation would alter health care as the American people know it by authorizing the federal government takeover of our country’s health care system while dramatically increasing the deficit’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7134</link>
			<pubDate>23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republicans: EPA’s Bias Skewed Endangerment Finding]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7144</link>
			<pubDate>23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Planet-Saving Ideas Hurt Incomes]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Roll Call Op-Ed by Rep. Joe Barton]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7136</link>
			<pubDate>22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Republicans Decry Dem Partisanship on Health Insurance Reform]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘In retrospect, it seems plain that neither you nor your Democratic members nor your staff was ever honestly interested in engaging us in a serious attempt to achieve bipartisan solutions to the nation’s health care problems’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7133</link>
			<pubDate>19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Democrats’ Plan for Health Insurance: Pay What You’re Told to Pay, Take the ‘Choices’ You’re Given]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Statement of U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, Ranking Member, House Energy and Commerce Committee]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7132</link>
			<pubDate>19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[People Have a Right to Protect Online Information, Barton Says]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7105</link>
			<pubDate>18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Food Safety Bill Represents Years of Work, Good Compromise]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘The bill … demonstrates that we can create common ground that most of our members can share’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7102</link>
			<pubDate>17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lawmakers Request Medicaid State Enrollment Data]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7103</link>
			<pubDate>17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Inadvertent Mistakes Shouldn’t Cause Anyone to Lose Health Insurance]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7099</link>
			<pubDate>16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Intimidation Has No Place in Government, Republicans Tell Waxman, Markey]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘Witnesses have every right to expect that in exchange for their honesty with us, they will not be subjected to sanction, retribution and vengeance simply because the facts and opinions they offer do not square with those of the committee’s members’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7095</link>
			<pubDate>12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[U.S. Needs to Modernize Transmission Grid, Barton Says]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7093</link>
			<pubDate>12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: ‘Working People Are Losing Their Jobs and They Deserve to Know Why’]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘Many of us have heard from dealers who are losing their livelihoods and have a lot of questions and concerns, in good part because they haven’t received clear answers to date’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7091</link>
			<pubDate>12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Stearns Ask Commerce, FCC for Data about Impact of DTV Delay]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7088</link>
			<pubDate>11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bipartisan Effort Has Improved Food Safety Bill, Barton Says]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Fees, civil monetary penalties and inspection frequency still need work]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7083</link>
			<pubDate>10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Global Warming Bill’s Allocation System Fundamentally Flawed, Barton Says]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘If man-made CO2 in the United States really is a problem, then you don’t give the allowances away.’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7080</link>
			<pubDate>9 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Top Republicans Ask Chairmen for Health Reform Hearings]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘Republicans are firmly committed to ensuring that all Americans have access to affordable, quality health care’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7076</link>
			<pubDate>9 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Stearns Ask FCC to Detail USF Tax Increases]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7077</link>
			<pubDate>9 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[FCC Response Highlights USF Excesses; Barton, Stearns Call for Market-Based Reform]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7060</link>
			<pubDate>5 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[DOE Says Carbon Capture Programs Could Take 10+ Years to Complete]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Answers put in jeopardy emissions deadline set by Waxman-Markey global warming bill]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7067</link>
			<pubDate>3 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Food Safety Draft Adds More Weight Than Quality to New FDA Regulations]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘We think it’s time to address this problem in a bipartisan fashion’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7066</link>
			<pubDate>3 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dems to People Who Can’t Pay Their Global Warming Bills: Tough Luck]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[No 5-Year Evaluations…Buying Foreign Offsets OK…Allowance Giveaways for Pals]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7061</link>
			<pubDate>22 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lost Jobs, Soaring Energy Costs Can’t Deter Democrats from Advancing Radical Global Warming Plan]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Dems Reject GOP Caps on Unemployment, Home Electric Bills & Gasoline Prices]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7059</link>
			<pubDate>21 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republicans Offer Broad Clean Energy Program Based on Clean Air Act; Dems Say No]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7054</link>
			<pubDate>21 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dems Dump Protections for Coal Miners]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7051</link>
			<pubDate>21 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Democrats Block Offramp for Struggling Autoworkers]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7045</link>
			<pubDate>21 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dems Turn Down Emissions-Free Energy, Including Hydro]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7044</link>
			<pubDate>21 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Doubled Electric Bills Not Pricey Enough To Spook Democrats]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich.: ‘These are just message amendments’
Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas: ‘Yes, they send a message to the American people’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7049</link>
			<pubDate>21 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Carbon Credit Derivatives Aren't The New Credit Default Swaps. No, Really.]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA['Lessons learned;' Dems Swear New See-No-Evil Policy Won't Revive Old Scams, Bring New Recessions]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7038</link>
			<pubDate>20 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Democrats Create Best Practices for Your Hot Tub]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7035</link>
			<pubDate>20 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The sounds of silence]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Scenes from a markup]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7034</link>
			<pubDate>20 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dems on Emission-Free Nuclear Power – Yes and No]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7025</link>
			<pubDate>20 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Democratic Amendment in Which We Learn How States and Electric Companies Are Victims of Gouging and Need Federal Consumer Protection, Poor Dears]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Scenes from a markup]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7029</link>
			<pubDate>20 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Calif. fraud, secrecy should give us pause about cap-and-trade]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Hill Op-ed]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7086</link>
			<author>Rep. Joe Barton</author>
			<pubDate>20 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Will EPA or Congress Call the Shots on CO2? Democrats Vote to Trust Enviro-Bureaucrats]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. Joe Barton: ‘Do you want the EPA second-guessing you?’ Answer: Yes, thanks!]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7040</link>
			<pubDate>20 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Recession Not Doing the Job? Home Still Worth Too Much? Democrats Vote to Help]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[And restoring value by rebuilding to government energy codes ‘may not even cost all that much’ – Chairman Waxman]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7033</link>
			<pubDate>20 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Future Home-Building in Trouble: Dems Keep Implausible Building Code Mandates]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7030</link>
			<pubDate>20 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Democrats Reject Cap on Job Losses]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[15% Unemployment Not Enough to Suspend Global Warming Bill]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7022</link>
			<pubDate>19 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Democrats Vote to Allow $5 Gasoline]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Barton: ‘If we can put a cap on carbon, we darn sure ought to be able to put a cap on gasoline price increases from this bill.’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7021</link>
			<pubDate>19 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Biomass Energy Abandoned as Dems Ban Renewables from U.S. Lands]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘In the real world, woody biomass is woody biomass no matter where it comes from’ – Barton]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7020</link>
			<pubDate>19 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[United Democrats Defeat U.S. Jobs Amendment]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7019</link>
			<pubDate>19 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Will Global Warming Bill Costs Be Disclosed On Utility Bills? Upset Dems Say No]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Cranky Opposition to Transparency Plan Caroms from Blaming Bush SEC to Torture to Katrina Relief]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7023</link>
			<pubDate>19 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Democrats Decline to Shield Homeowners From Electricity Price Spikes]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘This is a carefully crafted compromise with the Edison Electric Institute’ — U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass.]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7018</link>
			<pubDate>19 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Walden Brings Box Full of Amendments to Committee to Improve National Energy Tax]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7015</link>
			<pubDate>19 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Q. How Much Will This Bill Cost My People Back Home? A. That's Between Them and the Electric Company]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Scenes from a markup]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7017</link>
			<pubDate>19 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Q. It’ll Cost How Much? A. Sorry, That’s Unknowable]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Scenes from a markup]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7014</link>
			<pubDate>19 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Hallmarks of Waxman-Markey: Unseen Deals, Untold Economic Damage]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Barton: Anti-global warming impact ‘is less than one degree Fahrenheit in the next 100 years’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7006</link>
			<pubDate>18 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Upton Ask Waxman For Allocation Hearing]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘If we wanted a bill sure to embarrass our committee, this is precisely the process we would adopt to create one’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=7005</link>
			<pubDate>18 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Quick, Pass Cap-and-Trade!]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6975</link>
			<pubDate>14 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[GOP Alternative to Waxman-Markey Will Add American Energy, Reduce Emissions]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6976</link>
			<pubDate>14 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Experts, Not Trial Lawyers Should Determine Medical Device Safety, Barton Says]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘The majority rarely passes up an opportunity to insert a lawyer into the practice of medicine, as if good litigating will mean good health’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6973</link>
			<pubDate>12 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Memo to Democratic Members, Committee on Energy and Commerce]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6974</link>
			<pubDate>12 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sending us back to 1875]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Washington Times Op-Ed]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6977</link>
			<author>Rep. Joe Barton</author>
			<pubDate>10 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[FERC Chairman Pressed to Explain Why ‘No New Nuclear or Coal Plants’ Needed]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Barton, Walden ask for data behind Wellinghoff blackout policy]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6971</link>
			<pubDate>8 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[More Nuclear, No Storage? Republicans Ask Chu to Reconcile Obama Policies]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Energy secretary says nuclear power must be ‘restarted’ as Obama budget puts Yucca in cold storage]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6970</link>
			<pubDate>7 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Wireless Competition Flourishing; Consumers Paying Less, Getting More]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6967</link>
			<pubDate>7 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Have You Heard: Dow Jones -- Fraud Case Underscores Cap-And-Trade Risks]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6969</link>
			<author>Ian Talley Of Dow Jones Newswire</author>
			<pubDate>7 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Walden Seek Answers from EPA on Cap-and-Trade Fraud Case in California]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Secrecy, unusual handling, shroud case in mystery]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6968</link>
			<pubDate>7 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Shadegg: Beating back big government]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Washington Times Op-Ed]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6964</link>
			<author>Rep. John Shadegg</author>
			<pubDate>6 May 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Consumer Safety: ‘Toy Story 3: Emperor Uncle Sam Puts You Out of Business’]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Hill Op-Ed]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6961</link>
			<author>Rep. Joe Barton</author>
			<pubDate>30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Stearns Introduce FCC Reform Bill]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6960</link>
			<pubDate>30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Deal Ask HHS about Its Efforts to Manage Swine Flu Outbreak]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6959</link>
			<pubDate>28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republicans’ Hearing on Waxman-Markey to Examine Emissions Allocations]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Missing cost provisions sought from Democrats]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6958</link>
			<pubDate>28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Scenes from an Earth Day Hearing, Part 3]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[House Energy & Commerce Committee, April 22-24]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6956</link>
			<pubDate>27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Have You Heard? Washington Post: Selling The Green Economy]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6963</link>
			<pubDate>27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republicans Assert House Rules, Ask for More Witnesses on Global Warming]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘Hasty decisions on incomplete legislation never seem to produce the desired outcome’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6953</link>
			<pubDate>24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton Exposes Cap and Trade as a Job-Killing Tax on Energy]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6954</link>
			<pubDate>24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Scenes from An Earth Day Hearing, Part II]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[House Energy & Commerce Committee, April 21-23]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6948</link>
			<pubDate>23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Walden Ask Chu, Solis to Define, Estimate Number of New Green Jobs]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6945</link>
			<pubDate>22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Scenes from An Earth Day Hearing]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[House Energy & Commerce Committee, April 22]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6946</link>
			<pubDate>22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[An Earth Day for Working People]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Hill Op-Ed]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6941</link>
			<author>Joe Barton</author>
			<pubDate>22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Committee Republicans Ask Waxman for More Hearings on Global Warming Bill]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Shallow ‘three-day marathon’ maximizes speed, minimized knowledge]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6938</link>
			<pubDate>21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Regressive Energy Tax No Way to Jumpstart Our Economy]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘With a cap and trade scheme like that proposed by Chairmen Waxman and Markey, households can expect energy cost increases up to $3,128 per year’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6940</link>
			<pubDate>21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Walden Query Chu on NEPA, ESA Reviews of Carbon Capture Programs]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6937</link>
			<pubDate>21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[NIH Rules on Conflict of Interest May Miss Stimulus Deadline]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6936</link>
			<pubDate>21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[We Need to Do Better Job in Solving Medicare Physician Payments Problem, Barton Says]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6932</link>
			<pubDate>2 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Have You Heard? NPR: Public Concern, Not Science, Prompts Plastics Ban]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6930</link>
			<pubDate>1 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bill Fixes Mistakes in Toy Safety Law, Will Rescue Small Shops from Bankruptcy]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6929</link>
			<pubDate>1 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cap & Trade: Rescuing the Planet from the People]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘Green jobs’ mean last year’s roughneck can be next year’s green hero, only at half pay]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6926</link>
			<pubDate>31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Hatch-Waxman Act Working Well for Generic Drug Market]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6925</link>
			<pubDate>31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[In Case You Missed It: WSJ -- Pelosi's Library Quarantine]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The CPSC is left cleaning up the House Speaker's messy child-safety law.]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6924</link>
			<pubDate>30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republicans Write to NNSA's D'Agostino on Los Alamos Computer Thefts]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6923</link>
			<pubDate>30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Trade Rep Kirk Asked to Outline, Explain Plans to Punish CO2 Emitters with Tariffs]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Republicans warn trade war will kill U.S. jobs]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6918</link>
			<pubDate>26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Are Stronger Rules Needed to Protect Medical Test Subjects?]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘If the public sees that our committee and federal agencies are ensuring that the research committee is looking out for the folks here, confidence in clinical trials will be boosted and participation will increase’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6917</link>
			<pubDate>26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mankind Always Adapts to Climate, Barton Says]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘Adaptation to shifts in temperature is not that difficult. What will be difficult is adaptation to rampant unemployment … if we adopt such a reckless policy as … cap and trade’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6912</link>
			<pubDate>25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Liability Reform, Physician-Owned Hospitals Can Improve Access to Care, Barton Says]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6909</link>
			<pubDate>24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Congress Must Take Care in Strengthening FTC’s Hand]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6908</link>
			<pubDate>24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Globe Cooling, Not Warming British Lord Will Tell House]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Monckton: ‘The impoverishing, regressive poll-tax that is cap-’n’-trade has an ignominious past and no future’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6907</link>
			<pubDate>24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dude, Don’t Green My Job]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6906</link>
			<pubDate>23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Walden Press NIH on Integrity of Stimulus Money Spent on Research]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6856</link>
			<pubDate>19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton Warns Cap and Trade Will Sap Jobs]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘…A Congressional majority determined to adopt a carbon cap-and-trade policy that is absolutely the worst thing we could be doing right now to protect the jobs we still have…’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6855</link>
			<pubDate>18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Republicans Ready to Work on Bipartisan Health Care Reform]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘You’d think from listening to some people that America is the worst place in the world to be sick, instead of the place where the world’s sick come to get well’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6854</link>
			<pubDate>17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Under Obama Cap-and-Trade Plan, Taxpayers Will Face $522 Tax Hike]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6851</link>
			<pubDate>13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cap-and-Trade's Fools Rush In]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Hill op-ed]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6849</link>
			<author>Rep. Joe Barton</author>
			<pubDate>12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Walden Raise Concerns about FDA State Inspection Agreements]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6848</link>
			<pubDate>11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republicans Ready to Work on Food Safety Fixes]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6847</link>
			<pubDate>11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Radanovich Renew Call for Hearing into Misfiring Consumer Protection Law]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘Please find a way that our committee can spend a morning listening for the first time to honest people who don’t belong to influential organizations and who can’t afford to hire lobbyists, experts or spokespeople...’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6846</link>
			<pubDate>6 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Prospects for Real Progress on Health Care Sketchy; More Hillarycare? No, Thanks]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6843</link>
			<pubDate>5 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[GAO Report Raises Serious Doubts about Effectiveness of Carbon Offsets – Barton]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘The European Union, with its costly cap-and-trade tax scheme and offsets market, decreased its CO2 emissions by 0.3 percent. In the United States, where we don’t do any of that, our CO2 emissions have been reduced by double that amount – 0.6 percent’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6842</link>
			<pubDate>5 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[In Case You Missed It -- WSJ: Makers Are Pushing Back on Toxic-Toy Law]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6844</link>
			<pubDate>5 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Summary of Votes for the March 4, 2009, Full Committee Markup]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6845</link>
			<pubDate>4 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: FDA’s Focus Should Be on Food and Drug Safety]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6841</link>
			<pubDate>4 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Cap-and-Trade Budget: Higher Electric Bills, Fewer Jobs, More Global Warming]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6840</link>
			<pubDate>26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Committee Items of Note in the FY 2009 Omnibus Bill]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6839</link>
			<pubDate>24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Walden Ask Attorney General to Explain Disposition of Milberg Case]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6838</link>
			<pubDate>24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Stearns Ask FCC, NTIA to Focus on Helping Over-the-Air Homes During DTV Switch]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6837</link>
			<pubDate>18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How to Stimulate Higher Bills for Using Less Electricity]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Barton: The stimulus bill is the most anti-competitive, anti-consumer, anti-free market piece of legislation I’ve ever seen on the House floor’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6836</link>
			<pubDate>13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Select Global Warming Solutions That Won’t Launch a Depression – Barton]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘If the choice is wash your clothes in the ditch or put in electricity that’s generated by a coal-fired power plant so that you can actually buy a washing machine, most people are going to build the coal-fired power plant’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6835</link>
			<pubDate>12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Markets Where Stations Have Asked to Switch to Digital TV before June 12, 2009]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6832</link>
			<pubDate>11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Some Questions for Stimulus Conferees]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6834</link>
			<pubDate>11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Industrial Energy Users Decry Revenue Booster for Electric Utilities]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Barton: “If you consumed less electricity, you should expect to save some money on your electric bill”]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6833</link>
			<pubDate>11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How unstimulating]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Washington Times op-ed]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6831</link>
			<author>Rep. Joe Barton</author>
			<pubDate>11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Walden Ask for GAO Report on International Greenhouse Gas Inventories]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6829</link>
			<pubDate>10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How to Spend $838 Billion, and Why We Shouldn't]]></title>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6830</link>
			<pubDate>10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republicans Tell President Thousands of Jobs At Risk over Product Safety Bill]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘When CPSIA becomes effective next Tuesday, it has the very real potential to cause job losses and wreak economic havoc on thousands of small businesses’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6828</link>
			<pubDate>6 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[In Case You Missed It: Toys for Congress - New Lead Rules Hit Next Tuesday. Whammo.]]></title>
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			<pubDate>6 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton Announces Republican Committee Lineup]]></title>
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			<pubDate>5 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Static in the Digital TV Transition]]></title>
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			<pubDate>4 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[FCC Response to Barton, Stearns on DTV Transition]]></title>
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			<pubDate>4 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>3 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A History of the DTV Transition]]></title>
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			<pubDate>2 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton and Stearns Question Ability of Stations to Transition Early]]></title>
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			<pubDate>2 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton and Stearns to Pelosi: Bipartisan Solution to DTV Fix Exists]]></title>
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			<pubDate>28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Stearns Ask Pelosi to Call Off DTV Delay Vote]]></title>
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			<pubDate>27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Committee Report on H.R. 629: Republican Views]]></title>
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			<pubDate>27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Summary of Roll Call Votes at Jan. 22, 2009 Markup of Stimulus Bill]]></title>
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			<pubDate>27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lucky Bernie Madoff – Unemployed But Eligible for Government-paid Health Insurance]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[A Congressional Sketch]]></description>
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			<pubDate>27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton Introduces Bill to Speed DTV Coupon Distribution]]></title>
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			<pubDate>23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: No Hearings, One-Day Markup No Way to Spend Billions on Stimulus Bill]]></title>
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			<pubDate>22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How Keeping Your Electric Bill High Will Fix the Recession]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[A Congressional Sketch]]></description>
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			<pubDate>22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Republicans Agree with CPSC's Interpretation of Phthalate Provision in Product Safety Bill]]></title>
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			<pubDate>21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton Asks Waxman for Hearing to Review Consumer Product Safety Bill]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘Surely no one expected or wanted to drive thousands of home-based and small businesses out of operation and turn thousands of Americans into surprise victims of a brutal recession’]]></description>
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			<pubDate>21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Is it getting hot in here? (Hint: yes)]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[A Congressional Sketch]]></description>
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			<pubDate>15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton: Let’s Start Climate Discussions with Solutions That Work]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘If we say we have to do things to lessen CO2 regardless of the economic consequences, in my opinion that’s a bad thing’]]></description>
			<link>http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=6807</link>
			<pubDate>15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton to Paulson: Is AIG Using Bailout Funds To Help Fund USCAP?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[In Case You Missed It: VIEWPOINT: All Aboard Kennard's DTV Train Wreck]]></title>
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			<pubDate>15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Gutierrez Tells Barton Simple Fix Would Speed Delivery of DTV Coupons]]></title>
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			<pubDate>15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Committee Republicans Say ‘Panicky Talk’ of DTV Delay Breeding Uncertainty]]></title>
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			<pubDate>14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lawmakers Seek More Answers from Paulson]]></title>
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			<pubDate>22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton Probes FDA Contract]]></title>
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			<pubDate>22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton Asks GAO to Review DOE Computer Simulation Models]]></title>
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			<pubDate>22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Information Raises Doubts about FDA’s Heparin Review Process]]></title>
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			<pubDate>16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton Introducing Bill to Scrap BCS]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[‘Consumers…are being deceived. The BCS championship game is not a championship game under any sensible interpretation.’]]></description>
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			<pubDate>10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Enforcement Delays in Heparin Case Prompt Inquiry by Barton to FDA]]></title>
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			<pubDate>10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Keep People Warm, Fed and Working]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Roll Call op-ed]]></description>
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			<author>Rep. Joe Barton</author>
			<pubDate>8 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barton, Shimkus Want Data on FDA Performance; Arrests & Convictions Decline As Spending Rises]]></title>
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			<pubDate>5 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bernanke Responds to Barton Letter on Fed Loans to Foreign Central Banks]]></title>
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			<pubDate>4 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>4 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[GAO Unable to Verify Effectiveness of International Carbon Markets]]></title>
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			<pubDate>2 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[FCC IG’s Office Finds 23% Error Rate on USF High-Cost Fund Payments]]></title>
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