Joe Barton

the medical device review process at the Food and Drug Administration in my opinion has become overly burdensome, unpredictable and inconsistent under its current leadership.

I am one of the original sponsors of the tax limitation/balanced budget amendment under the Contract with America back in 1995. I have got one of the most conservative voting records in the House over the last 25 years. Common sense tells…

It is my sad duty to report to the House that last night in the 50th Annual Congressional Baseball Game, our friends on the minority side eked out an 8-2 victory. We gained 87 seats in the last election. They gained three, but one of…

Reclaiming my time, I do want to recognize the Republican MVP, who did get a legitimate hit, Steve Pearce of New Mexico. And I will point out to my friends on the minority side that this victory last night, while it is the third in the row…

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman.

I have been an advocate for privacy for almost 20 years in the Congress.

If you have Joe Barton and Ed Markey on a bill, you pretty well covered the political spectrum not only of this committee but of the Congress.

I believe we need to take steps to put privacy back into the personal realm and take it out of the consumer marketing opportunity realm.

But apparently that is all they did. They really didn't change their business model and it appears to me that Google has adopted a model of saying one thing in Washington and doing another thing in their business practices.

privacy is not a partisan issue, and I do believe, as he said, that it is time to act.

Decisions regarding patient care shouldn't be made by a panel of 15 unelected bureaucrats who haven't examined the specifics of an individual's unique case.

The former OMB Director, Peter Orszag, called the IPAB the single biggest yielding of power to an independent entity since the creation of the Federal Reserve.

This isn't government by the people. It is instead government by the bureaucrats.

What one person considers rationing, another might refer to as reducing excessive growth areas of Medicare.

The cuts speak for themselves, but the American people deserve to hear the truth about the IPAB as little more than a roadmap to potentially rationing care.

I yield 1 minute to one of our vigorous new Members from the great State of Illinois, Congressman Hultgren.

Before I yield to the gentlewoman from Tennessee, I would point out that the light bulbs that my good friend, Mr. Doyle, just alluded to, are five times to six times as expensive as the traditional incandescent light bulb, and they are not…

I yield myself the balance of my time. I have listened, Mr. Speaker, with interest to what my friends on the Democrat side have said about this bill. And I think in the interest of fairness, we ought to call a spade a spade. It is true…

I want to start off by introducing to the body my special assistant this week, Mr. Speaker, young Jack Kevin Barton, my 5-year-old son. He is with me to help with the congressional baseball game that we are going to play on Thursday…

Briefly, to reply to my good friend from Massachusetts, the light bulbs that he just showed, the least expensive one of those I think he said was about $1.60, $1.70. Your traditional incandescent light bulb you can buy, if you can find…

Thank you, Congressman Hoyer. It has been my pleasure to serve for 26 years on the Energy and Commerce Committee with the distinguished gentleman who is having his 85th birthday. What some of our newer Members may not know is what a…

I disagree with this decision treated unilaterally by a Chairman. It should have been a Commission decision.

Woman, Shell Oil Company has spent 5 years of time and $3 billion trying to drill one well in the Arctic Ocean--5 years and $3 billion. In that time period, worldwide and in other areas of the Outer Continental Shelf of the world, they…

We hope that was not an open and transparent process.

I have long been a proponent of FCC reform.