Honorable Joe Barton
United States Representative, Texas, Republican
Representative Barton, of the Sixth District of Texas, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1984. He was Assistant to the Vice President of Ennis Business Forms from 1973 to 1981, a White House Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy from 1981 to 1982, and a Consultant to Atlantic Richfield Company from 1982 to 1984. He is the Ranking Minority Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The following is from the July 30, 2008, House floor debate on H.R. 1108, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. The final product that’s before us…
