<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<person>
  <biography nil="true"></biography>
  <bioguideid>B000213</bioguideid>
  <birthday type="date">1949-09-15</birthday>
  <blog-article-count type="integer">7132</blog-article-count>
  <congress-office>2109 Rayburn House Office Building</congress-office>
  <contact-webform>http://joebarton.house.gov/ContactJoe.aspx?Type=Email</contact-webform>
  <district>6</district>
  <email nil="true"></email>
  <fax>202-225-3052</fax>
  <firstname>Joe</firstname>
  <fti-names>'r':4 '-6':6 'tx':5 'joe':2,7,9 'rep':1 'barton':3,8,10</fti-names>
  <gender>M</gender>
  <id type="integer">400018</id>
  <lastname>Barton</lastname>
  <metavid-id>Joe_Barton</metavid-id>
  <middlename>Linus</middlename>
  <name>Rep. Joe Barton [R, TX-6]</name>
  <news-article-count type="integer">3438</news-article-count>
  <nickname nil="true"></nickname>
  <osid>N00005656</osid>
  <page-views-count type="integer">8259</page-views-count>
  <party>Republican</party>
  <phone>202-225-2002</phone>
  <religion>Methodist</religion>
  <state>TX</state>
  <sunlight-nickname nil="true"></sunlight-nickname>
  <title>Rep.</title>
  <unaccented-name>Joe Barton</unaccented-name>
  <url nil="true"></url>
  <user-approval type="float">5.72727272727273</user-approval>
  <watchdog-id nil="true"></watchdog-id>
  <website>http://joebarton.house.gov/Default.aspx</website>
  <youtube-id nil="true"></youtube-id>
  <recent-news type="array">
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>congress</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Sun Feb 07 10:20:12 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Sun Feb 07 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt>...of the day the Texas Constitution took effect in 1876. Democratic congressional candidate David Cozad said he hopes U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Arlington, has disclosed everything he knows about how he earned nearly $100,000 from an interest in natural gas </excerpt>
      <fti-names>'r':31 '000':44 '100':43 'day':10 'gas':50 'joe':28 'rep':27 'set':4 'u.s':26 '1876':17 'bomb':7 'earn':41 'fort':51 'hope':25 'know':37 'near':42 'said':23 'star':54 'texa':12 'took':14 'cozad':22 'david':21 'money':6 'natur':49 'worth':52 'backer':3 'barton':29 'candid':20 'effect':15 'medina':2 'disclos':34 'everyth':35 'politex':1 'democrat':18 'interest':47 'telegram':55 'arlington':32 'constitut':13 'congression':19 'r-arlington':30 'star-telegram':53</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7519686</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>Fort Worth Star-Telegram</source>
      <source-url>http://www.star-telegram.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>PoliTex: Medina backer sets off money 'bombs'</title>
      <url>http://www.star-telegram.com/local/story/1952093.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>congress</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Sun Feb 07 10:20:13 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Sun Feb 07 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt>...officials took the stage but generally did not get as much applause as speakers who employed anti-incumbent rhetoric. When Rep. Joe Barton, R-Arlington, said he'd been in Congress for 25 years, members of the crowd yelled, &quot;That's too long!&quot; Barton tout</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':41 'r':37 '25':46 'get':20 'joe':34 'rep':33 'tea':9 'vow':5 'anti':29 'fort':59 'hear':4 'long':56 'much':22 'said':39 'star':62 'took':13 'tout':58 'year':47 'yell':52 'chang':7 'crowd':51 'parti':10 'ralli':11 'stage':15 'worth':60 'barton':35,57 'employ':27 'incumb':30 'member':48 'offici':12 'rhetor':31 'applaus':23 'cleburn':2 'conserv':3 'general':17 'speaker':25 'congress':44 'telegram':63 'arlington':38 'anti-incumb':28 'r-arlington':36 'star-telegram':61</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7519688</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>Fort Worth Star-Telegram</source>
      <source-url>http://www.star-telegram.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>In Cleburne, conservatives hear vows of change at Tea Party rally</title>
      <url>http://www.star-telegram.com/metro_news/story/1952193.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>congress</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Sun Feb 07 10:20:13 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Sun Feb 07 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt>...of the day the Texas Constitution took effect in 1876. Democratic congressional candidate David Cozad said he hopes U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Arlington, has disclosed everything he knows about how he earned nearly $100,000 from an interest in natural gas </excerpt>
      <fti-names>'r':31 '000':44 '100':43 'day':10 'gas':50 'joe':28 'rep':27 'set':4 'u.s':26 '1876':17 'bomb':7 'earn':41 'fort':51 'hope':25 'know':37 'near':42 'said':23 'star':54 'texa':12 'took':14 'cozad':22 'david':21 'money':6 'natur':49 'worth':52 'backer':3 'barton':29 'candid':20 'effect':15 'medina':2 'disclos':34 'everyth':35 'politex':1 'democrat':18 'interest':47 'telegram':55 'arlington':32 'constitut':13 'congression':19 'r-arlington':30 'star-telegram':53</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7519687</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>Fort Worth Star-Telegram</source>
      <source-url>http://www.star-telegram.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>PoliTex: Medina backer sets off money 'bombs'</title>
      <url>http://www.star-telegram.com/238/story/1952093.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>congress</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Mon Feb 08 10:19:37 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Fri Feb 05 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt> Ron Paul, R-Surfside, had $1.9 million, followed by Jeb Hensarling, R-Dallas, $1.9 million; Joe Barton, R-Ennis, $1.8 million; Chet Edwards, D-Waco, ... </excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':28 'r':4,14,21 '1.8':23 '1.9':7,16 'jeb':11 'joe':18 'ron':1 'chet':25 'enni':22 'paul':2 'texa':30 'waco':29 'dalla':15 'barton':19 'd-waco':27 'edward':26 'follow':9 'r-enni':20 'tribun':31 'hensarl':12 'million':8,17,24 'r-dalla':13 'surfsid':5 'r-surfsid':3</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7526927</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google news</scraped-from>
      <source>Texas Tribune</source>
      <source-url nil="true"></source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title></title>
      <url>http://www.texastribune.org/stories/2010/feb/05/membership-has-its-privileges/</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>republican</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Fri Feb 05 21:30:19 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Fri Feb 05 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt>...echoed that point. &quot;We've heard some of the usual predictions that this is the end of the media world as we know it,&quot; said Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. &quot;Put me down as skeptical on that.&quot; Comca</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'ve':8 'end':19 'joe':30 'put':44 'rep':29 'top':35 'deal':2 'echo':4 'hous':39 'know':26 'said':28 'texa':33 'comca':51 'heard':9 'media':22 'point':6 'usual':13 'world':23 'barton':31 'energi':40 'ledger':55 'clarion':54 'comcast':1 'commerc':42 'predict':14 'skeptic':48 'committe':43 'question':3 'republican':36 'clarion-ledg':53</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7506202</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>The Clarion-Ledger</source>
      <source-url>http://www.clarionledger.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Comcast deal questioned</title>
      <url>http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20100205/BIZ/2050328/1005/rss03</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>democrat</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Fri Feb 05 10:20:25 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Fri Feb 05 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt>...the House subcommittee.  &quot;We've heard some of the usual predictions that this is the end of the media world as we know it,&quot; said Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. &quot;Put me down as skeptical on that.&quot;</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'ve':12 'end':23 'joe':34 'nbc':6 'put':48 'rep':33 'top':39 'deal':7 'hous':1,9,43 'know':30 'said':32 'texa':37 'heard':13 'media':26 'queri':3 'usual':17 'world':27 'barton':35 'counti':56 'energi':44 'herald':57 'comcast':5 'commerc':46 'predict':18 'skeptic':52 'committe':47 'democrat':2 'monterey':55 'republican':40 'comcast-nbc':4 'subcommitte':10</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7498056</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>Monterey County Herald</source>
      <source-url>http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>House Democrats query Comcast-NBC deal</title>
      <url>http://www.montereyherald.com/business/ci_14340144?source=rss</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>republican</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Mon Feb 08 10:19:36 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Fri Feb 05 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt> I spoke Thursday with Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce committee, at his office at the Rayburn House office ... </excerpt>
      <fti-names>'joe':6 'rep':5 'hous':15,26 'rank':11 'texa':9 'offic':22,27 'spoke':2 'barton':7 'energi':16 'commerc':18 'rayburn':25 'committe':19 'newshour':28 'thursday':3 'republican':12</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7526926</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google news</scraped-from>
      <source>NewsHour</source>
      <source-url nil="true"></source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title></title>
      <url>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/02/top-republican-on-house-energy-committee-carbon-is-not-a-pollutant.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>republican</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Mon Feb 08 10:19:38 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Fri Feb 05 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt> Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., called the climate change effort &amp;quot;a breathtaking waste of the commission&amp;#39;s resources. ... </excerpt>
      <fti-names>'r':4,10 'joe':1 'ore':11 'call':12 'deal':27 'greg':7 'texa':5 'wast':19 'chang':15 'daili':26 'r-ore':9 'barton':2 'climat':14 'effort':16 'r-texa':3 'walden':8 'commiss':22 'resourc':24 'breathtak':18 'subscript':28</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7526929</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google news</scraped-from>
      <source>The Daily Deal (subscription)</source>
      <source-url nil="true"></source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title></title>
      <url>http://www.thedeal.com/newsweekly/insights/rules-of-the-road/accounting-for-climate-change.php</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>rep\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Mon Feb 08 10:19:36 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Feb 04 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt> Skeptical of the concerns of media watchdogs was Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), who said he was more interested in talking about the deal and not a bunch of ... </excerpt>
      <fti-names>'r':13 'joe':10 'los':31 'rep':9 'deal':25 'said':16 'talk':22 'texa':14 'time':33 'angel':32 'bunch':29 'media':6 'barton':11 'r-texa':12 'concern':4 'skeptic':1 'interest':20 'watchdog':7</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7526924</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google news</scraped-from>
      <source>Los Angeles Times</source>
      <source-url nil="true"></source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title></title>
      <url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020400803.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
    <recent-news type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>democrat</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Thu Feb 04 21:30:44 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Thu Feb 04 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt>...that point. &quot;We've heard some of the usual predictions that this is the end of the media world as we know it,&quot; said Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. &quot;Put me down as skeptical on that.&quot; Comcast has </excerpt>
      <fti-names>'u':6 've':11 'end':22 'joe':33 'nbc':5 'put':47 'rep':32 'top':38 'deal':7 'hous':42 'know':29 'said':31 'texa':36 'heard':12 'media':25 'point':9 'usual':16 'world':26 'barton':34 'energi':43 'comcast':4,54 'commerc':45 'predict':17 'skeptic':51 'varieti':56 'challeng':2 'committe':46 'democrat':1 'republican':39 'comcast-nbc':3</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7491978</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">true</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>Variety</source>
      <source-url>http://www.variety.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Democrats challenge Comcast-NBC U deal</title>
      <url>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/variety/sections/webonly/~3/PRYhbwawlWU/VR1118014728</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-news>
  </recent-news>
  <recent-blogs type="array">
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>congress</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 10:20:09 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt>Joe Barton and &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; don&amp;#39;t seem to go hand in hand, but the congressman (first elected in 1984) was in Cleburne Saturday reportedly speaking&#8230; Wonder if his spenda-hol-ic voting record came up. Since the Republicans lost control of ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'go':23 'ic':46 'hol':45 'joe':4,14 'let':12 'tea':10,17 '1984':33 'alon':13 'came':49 'elli':58 'hand':24,26 'lost':54 'seem':21 'show':6 'sinc':51 'vote':47 'elect':31 'first':30 'parti':11,18 'speak':39 'barton':5,15 'counti':59 'observ':60 'record':48 'report':38 'spenda':44 'wonder':40 'cleburn':36 'control':55 'saturday':37 'republican':53 'congressman':3,29 'spenda-hol-':43</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7535162</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>The Ellis County Observer </source>
      <source-url>http://www.elliscountyobserver.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Why Did Congressman Joe Barton Show Up to a Tea Party, Let Alone ...</title>
      <url>http://www.elliscountyobserver.com/?p=12120</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>republican</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 21:30:44 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt>...perhaps through the machinations of CEI climate specialist Myron Ebell), Republican Rep. and Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Joe Barton began calling for an investigation into the graph. But Barton rejected an offer from National Academy of Sciences</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'air':42 'cei':8 'joe':21 'rep':14 'call':24 'ebel':12 'vent':43 'wish':1 'began':23 'chair':20 'graph':30 'myron':11 'offer':35 'think':2 'barton':22,32 'climat':9 'energi':16 'machin':6 'nation':37 'perhap':3 'reject':33 'scienc':40 'academi':38 'commerc':18 'committe':19 'investig':27 'republican':13 'specialist':10</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7544363</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>daylife</scraped-from>
      <source>The Air Vent</source>
      <source-url>http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Wishful Thinking</title>
      <url>http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/wishful-thinking/</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>democrat</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 21:30:37 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt>Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) &#8211; Republican Whip Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) &#8211; Vice Chair of Democratic Caucus Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) &#8211; Chairman, Energy &amp;amp; Commerce Committee Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) &#8211; Ranking Member, Energy &amp;amp; Commerce Committee ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'d':22,33 'r':14,43 'ca':23,34 'tx':44 'va':15 'joe':40 'rep':10,18,29,39 'care':3 'd-ca':21,32 'eric':11 'r-tx':42 'r-va':13 'rank':45 'vice':24 'whip':17 'chair':25 'henri':30 'updat':5 'barton':41 'cantor':7,12 'caucus':28 'energi':36,47 'health':2 'member':46 'summit':4 'waxman':31 'xavier':19 'althous':1,50 'becerra':20 'boehner':6 'commerc':37,48 'respond':8 'chairman':35 'committe':38,49 'democrat':27 'republican':16</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7544360</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>Althouse </source>
      <source-url>http://althouse.blogspot.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Althouse: Health care summit update: Boehner &amp;amp; Cantor respond to ...</title>
      <url>http://althouse.blogspot.com/2010/02/health-care-summit-update-boehner.html</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>congress</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 21:30:39 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt>Thank God for people like Joe Barton. My husband is going through rescession with BCBS. One week after his approved surgery he laid helpless in bed wrapped bandages and while making a casual call to BCBS an agent told me that the ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'go':22 'bed':37 'god':13 'joe':17 'one':27 'bcbs':26,47 'call':45 'care':11 'good':9 'laid':34 'like':16 'make':42 'told':50 'week':28 'wrap':38 'agent':49 'peopl':15 'robin':1 'thank':12 'approv':31 'bandag':39 'barton':18 'beaton':2 'casual':44 'deserv':8 'health':10 'america':5 'husband':20 'rescess':24 'surgeri':32 'helpless':35 'videobabble.com':54</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7544362</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>videobabble.com </source>
      <source-url>http://videobabble.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Robin Beaton: This Is America And We Deserve Good Health Care</title>
      <url>http://videobabble.com/2010/02/09/robin-beaton-this-is-america-and-we-deserve-good-health-care/</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>democrat</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 21:30:37 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt>What about Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX)? I think he&amp;#39;ll run either in a Special in November 2010 or in a Regular Election Nov. 2012. Reply &amp;middot; Conservative Democrat Says: February 9, 2010 at 5:48 pm. Merlin, Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'5':44 '9':41 'r':15 '48':45 'll':20 'pm':46 'tx':16 'gop':5 'joe':12 'nov':34 'rep':11 'run':21 'say':39 '2010':28,42 '2012':35 'r-tx':14 'texa':4 'david':50 'elect':33 'repli':36 'think':18 'barton':13 'either':22 'merlin':1,47 'novemb':27 'conserv':37 'lieuten':48 'primari':7 'regular':32 'special':25 'democrat':38 'dewhurst':51 'februari':40 'governor':6,49 'politicaldog101.com':8,52</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7544358</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>PoliticalDog101.com </source>
      <source-url>http://politicaldog101.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Merlin on the Texas GOP Governor Primary&#8230;.. &#171; PoliticalDog101.com</title>
      <url>http://politicaldog101.com/2010/02/09/merlin-on-the-texas-gop-governor-primary/</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>rep\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 21:30:37 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt>Waxman heard testimony from Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas). He has been seeking specific details from the White House on deals it made with industry groups. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), wants to &#8220;crack the door&#8221; on backdoor health ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'r':16,39 'joe':36 'rep':12,35 'deal':7,29 'door':45 'hous':4,27 'made':31 'news':51 'seek':21 'texa':17,40 'want':41 'crack':43 'group':34 'heard':9 'insur':50 'probe':2 'white':3,26 'barton':37 'detail':23 'health':48,49 'r-texa':15,38 'specif':22 'waxman':1,8 'burgess':14 'michael':13 'backdoor':47 'industri':6,33 'testimoni':10 'easytoinsurem':53</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7544357</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>Health Insurance News from EasyToInsureME </source>
      <source-url>http://news.easytoinsureme.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Waxman Probes White House On Industry Deals</title>
      <url>http://news.easytoinsureme.com/2010/02/09/waxman-probes-white-house-on-industry-deals/</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>rep\.</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 21:30:37 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt>Oh the (rare, but occasionally exceptional) joys of Twitter. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX)--the ranking member on the House Energy &amp;amp; Commerce Committee--says (tweets?) &amp;quot;I seemed [sic] to have baffled the Ene. ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'6':2 'r':18 'oh':5 'tx':19 'axi':4 'ene':38 'fox':1 'joe':15 'joy':11 'rep':14 'say':29 'sic':33 'axip':39 'hous':25 'r-tx':17 'rank':21 'rare':7 'seem':32 'baffl':36 'tweet':30 'barton':16 'energi':26 'except':10 'member':22 'commerc':27 'twitter':13 'committe':28 'milwauke':3 'occasion':9</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7544356</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>AXIPE </source>
      <source-url>http://www.axipe.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Fox 6 Milwaukee | AXI</title>
      <url>http://www.axipe.com/2010/02/fox-6-milwaukee/</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>congress</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 21:30:37 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt>U.S. Rep. Joe Barton, whose Sixth Congressional District includes UT Arlington, will help open the new synthetic fuel chemistry labs at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, in Room 310 of Science Hall. Barton has helped secure funding for CREST ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'4':25 '19':29 'ut':13 '310':32 'feb':28 'joe':6 'lab':23 'new':19 'p.m':26 'rep':5 'u.s':4 'uta':1 'fuel':21 'fund':40 'hall':35 'help':16,38 'news':2,49 'open':17 'room':31 'texa':46 'crest':42 'secur':39 'sixth':9 'whose':8 'barton':7,36 'center':3 'friday':27 'includ':12 'releas':50 'scienc':34 'synthet':20 'univers':44 'district':11 'arlington':14,48 'chemistri':22 'congression':10</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7544355</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>The University of Texas at Arlington News Releases </source>
      <source-url>http://www.uta.edu/ucomm/mediarelations/press/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>UTA News Center</title>
      <url>http://www.uta.edu/ucomm/mediarelations/press/2010/02/Barton,-new-CREST-lab-space.php</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>republican</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 21:30:37 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt>Then, in 2005, (and perhaps through the machinations of CEI climate specialist Myron Ebell), Republican Rep. and Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Joe Barton began calling for an investigation into the graph. ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'cei':18 'joe':31 'rep':24 '2005':11 'call':34 'draw':2 'ebel':22 'lass':43 'began':33 'chair':30 'graph':40 'myron':21 'troll':1 'barton':32 'climat':19 'energi':26 'machin':16 'perhap':13 'polici':42 'vexati':7 'charact':8 'commerc':28 'quarter':4 'committe':29 'investig':37 'republican':23 'specialist':20</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7544359</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>The Policy Lass </source>
      <source-url>http://shewonk.wordpress.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>Trolls, drawing and quartering, and other vexatious characters ...</title>
      <url>http://shewonk.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/trolls-drawing-and-quartering-and-other-vexatious-charactersmorego/</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
    <recent-blog type="Commentary">
      <average-rating type="float" nil="true"></average-rating>
      <commentariable-id type="integer">400018</commentariable-id>
      <commentariable-type>Person</commentariable-type>
      <contains-term>congress</contains-term>
      <created-at type="timestamp">Tue Feb 09 10:20:10 -0600 2010</created-at>
      <date type="timestamp">Mon Feb 08 00:00:00 -0600 2010</date>
      <excerpt>NOAA Response to Congressional Questions Regarding Climate Change, The Honorable Joe Barton and the Honorable Fred Upton. Updated November 2009. Accessed December 10, 2009. RealClimate. (2009, October 6). A warming pause? ...</excerpt>
      <fti-names>'6':39 '10':34 'day':8 'joe':22 'new':3 'sin':9 '2009':31,35,37 'fred':27 'noaa':1,12 'paus':42 'warm':41 'watt':43 'chang':19 'first':7 'honor':21,26 'octob':38 'omiss':11 'updat':29 'upton':28 'access':32 'barton':23 'climat':18 'decemb':33 'novemb':30 'regard':17 'websit':4 'respons':13 'question':16 'realclim':36 'climate.gov':5 'congression':15</fti-names>
      <id type="integer">7535164</id>
      <is-news type="boolean">false</is-news>
      <is-ok type="boolean">true</is-ok>
      <scraped-from>google blog</scraped-from>
      <source>Watts Up With That? </source>
      <source-url>http://wattsupwiththat.com/</source-url>
      <status>OK</status>
      <title>NOAA&amp;#39;s new website climate.gov &#8211; a first day sin of omission ...</title>
      <url>http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/08/noaas-new-website-climate-gov-first-day-sin-of-omission/</url>
      <weight type="integer" nil="true"></weight>
    </recent-blog>
  </recent-blogs>
</person>
