1. Joseph Linus Barton was born on September 15,1949 and is an American politician.
48 Facts About Joe Barton
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In 2014, Joe Barton became the longest-serving member of the Texas congressional delegation.
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Joe Barton described himself as "a constant defender of conservative ideals and values".
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Joe Barton advocated for deregulation of the electricity and natural gas industries, and served as vice-chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committees.
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Joe Barton denied that manmade carbon emissions had contributed to global warming, was a proponent of the use of fossil fuels, voted in favor of the May 2017 GOP plan to replace Obamacare, supported President Donald Trump's ban on immigration from certain predominantly Muslim nations, and supported the death penalty for people caught spying.
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Joe Barton led a successful effort to repeal the oil export ban in the House in 2015.
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Joe Barton was born in Waco, Texas, the son of Bess Wynell and Larry Linus Joe Barton.
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Joe Barton made his first run for elected office in 1984, when he entered the Republican primary for Texas's 6th congressional district after three-term incumbent Phil Gramm left his seat to run for the United States Senate that year.
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Joe Barton was one of six freshmen Republican US congressmen elected from Texas in 1984, known as the Texas Six Pack.
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In 1986, Joe Barton won re-election against Democratic candidate Pete Geren, who was later elected to Congress from a neighboring district.
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Joe Barton was only challenged in the primary twice in this time period: in 1992 and 1994.
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Joe Barton polled 32,579 ; his 2012 primary opponent, Frank Kuchar, trailed with 12,260 votes.
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Joe Barton finished with 159,444 votes to Woolridge's 106,667 ; the most any Democrat had received against Joe Barton in his three-decade career.
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Texas's filing deadline for the House seat held by Joe Barton was December 11,2017.
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Joe Barton initially said that he would run for reelection, but announced on November 30,2017, that he would not seek reelection in 2018.
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram urged that Joe Barton not seek re-election.
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Joe Barton announced on November 30,2017, that he would not seek reelection.
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Joe Barton voted against the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 in both of its manifestations.
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In March 2011, Barton sponsored the Better Use of Light Bulbs Act, which would repeal the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, signed by President George W Bush.
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Joe Barton was a member of the Freedom Caucus and the United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus.
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Joe Barton rejects the scientific consensus on climate change that climate change is real and that human activity is the primary cause.
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Joe Barton tried to block the bipartisan Combating Autism Act of 2006.
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Joe Barton said that the money steered toward environmental causes of autism was not the reason he blocked passage of the bill.
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Joe Barton introduced the National Institutes of Health Reform Act of 2006, while Senator Rick Santorum introduced the Autism bill.
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Joe Barton let the bill die in committee, which upset many people who were vocal about saying Joe Barton had sacrificed the interests of autistic children in the interests of the oil and gas companies that donate heavily to his campaign.
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In June 2010, Joe Barton accused the Obama administration of a "$20 billion shakedown" of oil giant BP after the company reached an agreement with the administration to establish an escrow account to pay the claims of people harmed by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Joe Barton made the accusation at the outset of a House hearing where BP's chief executive officer, Tony Hayward, appeared for the first time before Congress.
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Joe Barton later said that his earlier remarks had been "misconstrued" and that he believed BP was responsible for the accident.
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In 2010, Joe Barton backed a policy platform that called for re-criminalizing sodomy in Texas.
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The article and CREW Report both pointed out how Joe Barton buying this undervalued asset from an "advisor" on energy issues could be a conflict of interest to the Congressman's position as the Chair of the House's Energy Subcommittee.
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CREW reported that Joe Barton paid his wife Terri $57,759 in salary and bonuses, from his campaign funds in the 2006 election cycle.
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Joe Barton has sought to permit online poker, and regulate it on a federal level.
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Joe Barton favored repealing the Affordable Care Act.
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Joe Barton said that he could not support an increase in the debt ceiling.
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Joe Barton supported President Donald Trump's 2017 Executive Order 13769 banning entry to the United States by nationals of seven Muslim-majority nations.
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In November 2017, Joe Barton called on the House leadership to pass naturalization legislation for children who came across the border illegally with their parents.
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In 1993, Joe Barton ran in the special election for the US Senate seat vacated by the resignation of Lloyd Bentsen, who became United States Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton administration.
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Joe Barton finished third in the contest, behind state treasurer Kay Bailey Hutchison and Senator Bob Krueger, thus missing a runoff slot.
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Joe Barton divided the more conservative vote in that election with House colleague Jack Fields of Houston.
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In June 2008, at a time when Joe Barton had introduced legislation to assist corporations with the recycling of spent nuclear fuel, the corporation donated $25,000 to the Foundation.
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In November 2017, nude selfie pictures of Joe Barton surfaced online, which he acknowledged were authentic, and which he apologized for to his constituents.
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Joe Barton shared with the Washington Post a 2015 recorded phone call in which Barton warned her against using the explicit materials "in a way that would negatively affect my career," threatening to report her to the Capitol Police if she did so.
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The woman shared with the Washington Post text and social media messages Joe Barton exchanged with her, as well as a 53-second cellphone video in which Joe Barton recorded himself masturbating.
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Joe Barton described to the newspaper encounters and contact with Barton spanning a five-year period, beginning in 2011.
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Joe Barton sent the messages in 2012 and 2013, while Joe Barton was married to his second wife.
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Joe Barton was divorced from his first wife in 2003.
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Joe Barton remarried in 2004, and divorced from his second wife in 2015.
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In December 2005, Joe Barton suffered a heart attack and was taken to George Washington University Hospital.