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Joe Barton is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 6th congressional district from 1985 to 2019. During his tenure, Barton served as the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where he played a significant role in shaping energy policy and telecommunications legislation. He was known for his advocacy of fossil fuel interests and his support for deregulation in the energy sector.
Nobody that opposes the amendment to strike the language that is before us at this point in time is trying to take the pressure off of any airport to not implement tough baggage screening processes. The point of the fact is the major hub…
In the bill that is on the floor, section 128, which has the section that the gentleman was alluding to that would give TSA the authority to do the rule, it is repealed.
I think this is a good bill. The provider part of it is almost universally supported. I think the prescription drug benefit is a good start. I think it could be improved. I would like at some point in time to have the ability to offer the…
reclaiming my time, we will stipulate that the gentleman's coal is clean. We might want to point out that coal in general has sizably larger emissions of VOCs than some of my dirty natural gas. It is about 95 percent, maybe 96 percent…
I want to compliment my excellent and good friend from Massachusetts for offering this motion to instruct conferees. It is obvious that some thought has gone into it. I do not believe anybody on our side of the aisle is for deficit…
I know the gentleman thinks that is an excellent part of the bill, and it is an excellent part of the bill. Just as there are things that help his part of the country and his industry and his people, some of us think that some of the other…
We want to go to conference and work on a bipartisan basis for an energy policy. The Committee on Energy and Commerce... passed this bill 50 to 5... We are the 'happy face' committee. We want to go to conference with the other body and…
I really had not intended to speak tonight on the supplemental appropriation, but I have been locked out of my office due to my own inability to remember my keys, so I have had no recourse but to sit on the floor and actually listen to the…
my late father was a plant geneticist. He spent his entire career developing cotton plants and cotton seeds that could be used as food. I wish we would have had this research enabled when he was alive so he could have participated through…
first, I want to commend our distinguished chairman, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Boehlert), and our distinguished ranking member, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Hall), for their excellent work on this resolution that was reported on a…
Mr. Speaker, let me say that several years ago the American Society for Civil Engineers made me one of their engineering fellows. It is a distinguished achievement award that they really give to engineers who have made a lifetime in civil…
in 1981 and 1982, I was a White House Fellow in the Department of Energy and served at a very low level on the task force that developed the recommendations that later became the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982. Today, I stand on the…
I am shocked, shocked and amazed, that he would think that the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Boucher) and I would present a bill on the floor that had an unfunded mandate. I am one of the most conservative Members of this body, and I am…
I include for the Record a letter from Edward C. Sullivan, the President of the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, in support of H.J. Res. 87. Building and Construction Trades Department, American Federation of…
we are here today to move a resolution that would move forward the process that would ultimately result in a site being selected to store high-level nuclear waste that has been generated primarily by our civilian nuclear reactors in this…
this week and today we are trying to focus attention on the problem of asthma in the United States. I am one of the original sponsors, and to this day, chief sponsors of Asthma Awareness Day. Senator Kennedy in the other body and the…
on the facade behind me, there is a quote from Daniel Webster that begins, ``Let us develop the resources of our land.'' That is what we are about today. I was a cosponsor of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. I was on the conference…
in 1984 the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Armey) and myself were elected to Congress from adjoining districts. He started out sleeping in his congressional office, and I started out picketing then-majority leader Jim Wright, which the…
I would take mild umbrage to the statement of my good friend, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), that this is an odoriferous piece of legislation. I think it is sweet smelling like a rose. But to the extent that it has offended…
I am pleased to bring to the floor the Price-Anderson Reauthorization Act of 2001, H.R. 2983. After several months of hard work, the Committee on Energy and Commerce has produced a bipartisan bill that ensures swift compensation to the…
I want the chairman and the ranking member to know that I disapprove of that. I will work strongly to change it at the appropriate time.
my concern and the pilots' concern is about qualification number two, ``the air carrier approves.'' They do not have and I do not have a problem with the air carriers being involved in the discussion about the terms of the Under Secretary…
I want to talk about the ability of our pilots to carry firearms in the cockpit. As I understand it, the section of the bill that deals with that is entitled ``Flight Deck Security'' and I am going to read what I think is the language: The…
D-FW airport, except for one runway, is totally within the Sixth District of Texas, which happens to be the district that I am privileged to represent. There were over 40,000 American Airlines and Delta Airlines and various other airline…
tragic Tuesday, which occurred yesterday, is one of those days that is going to go down in history as a ``Where were you?'' I was not alive on December 7, 1941, but for those who were, it was one of those ``Where were you on December 7…
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