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You know what I enjoy? Emailing politicians and asking them to support my favorite pet causes. I can't tell you how many marijuana reform emails I've sent Joe Barton (he's not coming around on the issue at all). NORML, MPP, StopTheDrugWar.Org etc make it easy to contact your rep' [...]
The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee has approved Rep. Joe Barton's BCS-busting bill on a voice vote. There was one dissent: Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga. The bill would try to alter the format for choosing a national champion.
Next step: the bill would need approval from the full committee,' [...]
Opposition to Barton's bill showed up today. No one is supporting the BCS -- in fact it is the complete opposite -- but now three representatives have voiced that Congress should be spending time on other things.
Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., said, "BCS means business, consumers and seniors. That's what I" [...]
Subcommittee chairman Bobby Rush, D-Illinois, opened the hearing with an amendment that would further tweak the BCS.
It would further define "unfair or deceptive" to prevent the BCS from finding a loophole, such as calling the title game "The Big Game" or "The Final Game." The amendment would also ensure that [...]
Just about to get started at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee markup of the College Football Playoff Act -- the brainchild of Rep. Joe Barton, R-Arlington.
If the bill passes muster today, it would be a small but significant step toward turning up the pressure on the NCAA and the [...]
For anyone thinking the Copenhagen climate change summit would just be a celebration of measures to defeat global warming, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Arlington, has news:
He's coming, and he is going to disagree.
Barton, one of Congress' biggest critics of global warming, will travel to the United Nations conference next week with' [...]
