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Joe Barton

(1949) Politician

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Joe Barton is a politician, best known for Emancipatory and Participatory Research for Emerging Educational Researchers.

Quick Facts About Joe Barton

Born: September 15, 1949
Profession: Politician
Notable works: Emancipatory and Participatory Research for Emerging Educational Researchers

About Joe Barton

Joseph Linus Barton is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Texas's 6th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 2019. The district included Arlington, part of Fort Worth, and several small towns and rural areas south of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. He was also a member of the Tea Party Caucus. In 2014, Barton became the longest-serving member of the Texas congressional delegation.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Joe Barton

Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be.

Legal

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It affects you when you get shot at, when your children get shot at. In our case, we had one shooter, a…

Case

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I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked…

Energy

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Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.

Adapt

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There are enough people who lost faith in me that it's time to step aside and let there be a new voice…

Faith

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Texans are by nature independent people.

Independent

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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian…

Accident

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I'm very proud to be a member of the Congress. And I'm proud to serve with people like Mike Doyle.

Congress

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I believe the earth's climate is changing, but I think it's changing for natural variation reasons and I think mankind has been…

Adapting

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Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two…

Als

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Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and…

America

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There's no way you should try to send somebody back who came here as a child with their parents and who's grown…

Back

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Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where…

Areas

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CO2 is not a pollutant in any normal definition of the term.

Any

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People don't want Congress dictating what light fixtures they can use.

Congress

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Politics in Washington is a contact sport. But it shouldn't be a personal animosity sport.

Animosity

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If we start - premise that the information is mine, and we give the individual's rights, we worry about what happens during…

Information

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I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an…

Believer

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You do not need the government to protect open internet; the marketplace was doing it and will continue to do it. All…

Burden

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I am very proud of my public record and the many accomplishments of my office. It has been a tremendous honor to…

Honor

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And…

Nuclear

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The constant abuse of online activity must stop.

Abuse

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I think we should drill up in Alaska.

Alaska

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I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to…

Chairman

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