Wednesday, December 01, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., today asked the Federal Communications Commission chairman to explain how the agency has discovered legal authority to regulate the Internet in the Communications Act of 1934.   Read More >

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

With a new congressional session comes a recycling of the old proposal to raid the jurisdiction of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. This seems a bizarre moment to advance the idea that a group, which didn’t stand up to the Barack Obama-Nancy Pelosi axis on its radical energy and environmental initiatives, should now take over the work of the committee that did. (Rep. Doc Hastings’s Opinion piece, “One Energy Panel Better for Nation,” POLITICO, Nov. 22)   Read More >

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today wrote to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke once again requesting information about stimulus funding and salaries paid to employees at the department.   Read More >

Monday, November 29, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today asked Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick asking him to brief Republican members of the committee since he has not yet been given the opportunity to testify at a hearing.   Read More >

Friday, November 19, 2010

WASHINGTON – Nineteen members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, including the 18 returning members, led by Ranking Member Joe Barton, today called the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to vote on network neutrality “a mistake.”   Read More >

Thursday, November 18, 2010

WASHINGTON – Every returning member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee today signed a letter to Speaker-elect John Boehner and Majority Leader-elect Eric Cantor vigorously opposing the jurisdiction grab by Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings, R-Wash. U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., who is on leave from the committee, also signed the letter.   Read More >

Thursday, November 18, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Michael Burgess, R-Texas, ranking member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, today asked the Government Accountability Office to review the funding of National Public Radio.   Read More >

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

America just put its trust in conservatives to fix what’s gone so wrong lately, but change is tricky business, isn’t it? Last election’s “new-direction” Democrats are in trouble because it turned out their ideas of governance hadn’t changed since Vice President Henry A. Wallace wrote in the April 9, 1944, New York Times, “The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.”   Read More >