Joe Barton
Joe Linus Barton ( born September 15, 1949 in Waco, Texas ) is an American politician of the Republican Party and since 1985 member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Texas.
Biography
After visiting the Waco High School, he studied from 1968 to 1972 mechanical engineering at the Texas Agricultural & Mechanical University ( TAMU ) and where she earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA Industrial Engineering ). A subsequent post-graduate studies in business management at Purdue University in West Lafayette (Indiana) he finished in 1973 with a Master of Science (M.Sc. Industrial Administration ). He then worked as a manager. As a White House Fellow from 1981 to 1982 he was an employee of U.S. Energy Secretary James B. Edwards.
1984 Barton was first elected as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and represents there after twelve re- elections since the January 3, 1985 the 6th Congressional District of Texas. From 2003 to 2007 was chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce ( Committee on Energy and Commerce ) and has since struggled highest member of the Republican minority fraction ( Ranking Minority Member) and thus Leader of the Opposition in this committee.
Controversially Barton made in June 2010, when he, during a hearing of BP CEO Tony Hayward before the Committee at Hayward apologized that the U.S. federal government had committed to the Group due to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to high compensation payments. The White House responded with sharp criticism. Press secretary Robert Gibbs called Bartons action as " shameful". Barton worry obviously more large companies than to the situation of the little people. Congressman Jeff Miller put his party colleague Barton the resignation of its leadership position in the Committee close.
Barton is also an avowed climate skeptic who denies the man-made global warming. As a cause of climate change he sees the wrath of God. He also refused the use of wind energy, because that would accelerate his opinion on climate change. The satirical Moderator Bill Maher chose him because of these statements to one of the ten craziest congressmen.