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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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Experts, Not Trial Lawyers Should Determine Medical Device Safety, Barton Says
‘The majority rarely passes up an opportunity to insert a lawyer into the practice of medicine, as if good litigating will mean good health’
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today made the following statement during an Health Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Medical Device Anti-Preemption Hearing”:   Read More »

FERC Chairman Pressed to Explain Why ‘No New Nuclear or Coal Plants’ Needed
Barton, Walden ask for data behind Wellinghoff blackout policy
Friday, May 08, 2009
WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Joe Barton, R-Texas, ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., ranking member of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, today asked Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Jon Wellinghoff for confirmation about recent comments attributed to him about the need for new baseload power in the United States.   Read More »

Barton: Wireless Competition Flourishing; Consumers Paying Less, Getting More
Thursday, May 07, 2009
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, today made the following statement at a Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet hearing entitled, “An Examination of Competition in the Wireless Industry”:   Read More »

More Nuclear, No Storage? Republicans Ask Chu to Reconcile Obama Policies
Energy secretary says nuclear power must be ‘restarted’ as Obama budget puts Yucca in cold storage
Thursday, May 07, 2009
WASHINGTON – Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and House Committee on Science and Technology today wrote to Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu asking him to reconcile his belief that nuclear power must be “restarted” with the administration’s view that waste storage at Yucca Mountain is off the table.   Read More »