Heeeerrree's Joe BARTON!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[UTUSN]

http://joebarton.house.gov/Default.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TX06_109.gif




Early life
Barton was born in Waco, Texas, the son of Bess Wynell (née Buice) and Larry Linus Barton.<1> He graduated from Waco High School. He attended Texas A&M University in College Station on a Gifford-Hill Opportunity Award scholarship<2> and received a B.S. in industrial engineering in 1972. An M.Sc. in industrial administration from Purdue University followed in 1973. Following college Barton entered private industry until 1981 when he became a White House Fellow and served under United States Secretary of Energy James B. Edwards. Later, he began consulting for Atlantic Richfield Oil and Gas Co. before being elected to the United States Congress in 1984.<3>

Political career
Barton made his first run for elected office in 1984, when he entered the Republican primary for Texas's 6th congressional district after six-term incumbent Phil Gramm left his seat to run for the United States Senate that year. He finished first in the five-candidate field and defeated Max Hoyt in the runoff. He then defeated the Democratic nominee, former state representative Dan Kubiak, in the general election with 56 percent of the vote. He was one of six freshmen Republican congressmen elected from Texas in 1984 known as the Texas Six Pack. He was held to 55.8 percent of the vote in 1986 against Democrat Pete Geren (who would later be elected to Congress from a neighboring district), but hasn't faced another contest nearly that close, usually winning with over 60 percent of the vote. The Democrats didn't even put up a challenger in 1998 or 2000.

In 1993, Barton ran in the special election for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the resignation of Lloyd Bentsen, who became Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration. Barton finished third in the contest, behind state treasurer Kay Bailey Hutchison and Senator Bob Krueger, thus missing a runoff slot.

U.S. House of Representatives
Former Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee,<4><5> primary House author of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and chairman of the House-Senate energy conference committee.
Both initiated and eliminated "safe harbor" provision for MTBE (in Energy Policy Act of 2005).<6><7>
Co-founded the Congressional Privacy Caucus, cosponsor of the anti-spyware SPY ACT, initiated reauthorization of the National Institutes of Health.
Opposed the extension of the Voting Rights Act in 2006
A list of all bills that Representative Barton has introduced is available at Sponsored Bills and amendments at Amendments.
Barton has been the lead representative in forcing the switch from analog to digital TV and auctioning off the public airwaves to private companies.
Committee assignments
Committee on Energy and Commerce (Ranking Member)
As Ranking Member of the full committee, Rep. Barton may serve as an ex officio member of all subcommittees.
Caucus memberships
Founding Co-Chairman of the Congressional Privacy Caucus

[Skittles]

1. SCHEDULING UTUSN FOR ASS-KICKING

FOR REMINDING ME HOW CLOSE THIS FUCKER IS TO ME

[Spazito]

2. LOL!

:rofl:

[Skittles]

4. WE ALREADY HAVE OIL WHORES

BUSH FOR ONE :mad:

[UTUSN]

3. I've UPdated the O.P., so *think* about your SCHEDULE!1 n/t

[Canuckistanian]

5. Gerrymandering, anyone?

That's a mighty suspicious looking district.

[MajorChode]

10. You can thank Tom Delay for that one

The Southeast corner of Tarrant county has a high minority population and is heavily populated. The rest of Barton's district is more rural and heavily favors the Republican vote. So the Southeast corner of Tarrant county is effectively cancelled out by the rest of his district.

[niyad]

6. cripes, and I thought it was disgusting to have walter "mad dog" mengden in office when I lived

there.

this larcenous little cretin is, if possible, even worse than mad dog.

I wonder if mexico would like to have the state back?

by the way, thanks for saving me the trouble of looking him up to let him know what I think of him.

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. The shithead is an anxious to get a big CEO gig at an oil company

after he's done in the congress.The speech was a resume builder.

[tammywammy]

8. I live in Barton's district. Support David Cozad for Congress

http://www.cozadforcongress.com/

[Scurrilous]

9. K & R

:thumbsup:

[niyad]

11. for a second, I thought that was a pic of jeff sessions--they look so much alike