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 a White House Fellow in the U.S. Department of Energy from 1981 to 1982 and a consultant with Atlantic Richfield Company from 1982 to 1984. He is the Ranking Minority Member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The following is from the August 1, 2007, House floor debate on H.R. 3162, the Children’s Health and Medicare Protection (CHAMP) Act. Today the Democratic majority will make claims that they support reauthorizing the SCHIP program and, by implication, that Republicans…
