Joe Barton News Archives

The House Democratic healthcare reform bill is going to "ream" the American people, according to Energy and Commerce ranking member Joe Barton House GOP leaders were quick to march an entire hardcopy of the Democrats' nearly 2,000 page healthcare bill before TV cameras to denounce the measure for raising taxes, creating mandates and cutting ...

Numerous media figures and outlets have followed in lockstep, with the Politico 's Jonathan Allen asserting that the bill "comes out to about $2.24 million per word," and Sean Hannity claiming that "if you can't put this down in 30 pages or less, it proves that this is a complicated, you know, bunch of bureaucratic garbage." EMBED House Republicans ...

By MARIA RECIO WASHINGTON - For the Republican lawmakers who represent Tarrant County in Congress, the House Democratic healthcare bill is too big, too costly and too much government, a message that seems to be resonating with Democratic Rep.

Oct. 29, 2009 - The Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act, H.R 3126, is slated for mark-up today by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is focusing on the bill's impact on the Federal Trade Commission and its broad authority over consumer protection.

In the last ten years, Republicans have had twice as many Southern Senate incumbents get tossed out of office by the voters.

Gun Rights: A decade after Congress forbade the CDC from studying the health consequences of gun ownership, the National Institutes of Health has started funding such research.

Well net neutrality fans, your enemies list just got one person bigger. John McCain is the latest to come out against the FCC's work, and has even proposed legislation to stop the agency in its tracks.

The Net Neutrality Quandry for Big Telecom: Fight or Deal? It's The Morning After for Big Telecom, and it ain't pretty.

The Federal Communications Commission is expected to take the first step Thursday toward enacting net neutrality regulations that would ban Internet service providers from impeding Web traffic.

The nuclear industry could be instrumental in lessening the nation's dependence on foreign oil and other fossil fuels, but the obstacles standing in the way are daunting.

Rep. Joe Barton Tuesday evening asked the FCC to "halt" its network neutrality rulemaking.

A political-action committee created to fight college football's Bowl Championship Series is gaining support.

Third quarter campaign finance reports were due to the Federal Election Commission yesterday.

The recent surge on Wall Street has created a windfall for some Congressional campaigns that invested their political contributions in the stock market during the third quarter.

When NFL players take the field dressed in pink, you know something has changed.

The House Energy & Commerce Committee Thursday approved reauthorization of the bill granting satellite operators a compulsory license to carry distant TV network station signals.

" Surrounded by family and supporters on the Collin County Courthouse steps, Republican Greg Willis announced today his campaign for Collin County District Attorney.

REPORT: 'We Will Overthrow The Government' - Calls For Violence Repeatedly Stoked By Conservative Voices Last week, the right-wing media outlet Newsmax - which receives 4 million unique monthly visitors and 130,000 print subscribers - published a column by conservative author John Perry arguing that a military coup could "resolve" the "radical left ...

On "Real Time" Friday night Bill Maher pilloried climate change skeptics, particularly skeptics in the Republican party, insisting that they must "stop pretending climate change is a future problem." Maher directed his criticism at Republicans such as Sen.

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Story Snafus President Obama used not one, but two faulty anecdotes during his health care speech to Congress earlier this month.