Rep. Joe Barton loses bid to lead House Energy and Commerce Committee

The Dallas Morning News ^ | 12/07/10 | Dave Michaels

[Rastus]

WASHINGTON – Rep. Joe Barton failed Tuesday in his bid to lead one of the House’s most powerful committees despite an aggressive campaign that involved mobilizing the support of tea party groups.

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Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., won a vote of the GOP Steering Committee, a panel composed of party leaders. The appointment must be ratified by the full Republican conference on Wednesday.

Barton, R-Arlington, could challenge the decision by seeking a vote of the entire conference. It remained unclear Tuesday night whether he would do that.

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[ricmc2175]

So Ron Paul can't lead Banking, even though he is senior but Upton must lead Commerce because he is senior. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. This is the same path Gingrich went down that emasculated what could have been a reduction in government.

[jazusamo]

Agree with you both. Upton has no business chairing that committee with his moderate track record and Boehner should know it, he probably does know it but his four votes went to Upton.

[NonValueAdded]

Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., won a vote of the GOP Steering Committee, a panel composed of party leaders. The appointment must be ratified by the full Republican conference on Wednesday.

Is that the steering committee than has us in a ditch? Might as well be. Time for a vote of NO confidence.

[Tex-Con-Man]

Upton?

WTF!!!!

[hal ogen]

All, politicians who have imbibed in the WDC honey & money need to be tossed on the funeral pyre of liberalism. They just don’t get it. Most never will.

[Theodore R.]

Don’t be so sure. Republican primary voters are wholly uninformed cycle after cycle. All they know to do is renominate the “friendly incumbents” in most cases. I also believe Robert Bennett would have won a UT primary but he failed in a convention that he expected the bosses to control.

[FormerLib]

Grow some balls, Barton, your country needs you to FIGHT!

[thouworm]

Posted this thread on Joe Barton. He needs to fight back on this one too.

RINOs & insulated, comatose GOP power-mongers are oblivious to the fact that if they are successful in thwarting Constitution-loving conservatives, they will be kings of a dung pile and go down in history as enablers of the premeditated destruction of America.
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FCC push to regulate news draws fire
Hillicon Valley (The Hill) ^ | 12-06-10 | Sara Jerome

Posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2010 2:47:59 PM by thouworm

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) pushed back on Monday against a contention by a Democratic FCC commissioner that the government should create new regulations to promote diversity in news programming.

Barton was reacting to a proposal made last week by FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, who in a speech suggested that broadcasters be subject to a new “public values test” every four years.

“I hope … that you do not mean to suggest that it is the job of the federal government, through the [FCC], to determine the content that is available for Americans to consume,” Barton wrote Monday in a letter to Copps.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2638902/posts?page=1

[OrioleFan]

The Tea Party needs to stay energized.