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e university followed in 1973 following college barton entered private industry until 1981 when he became a white house fellow and served under united states secretary of energy james b edwards later he began consulting for atlantic richfield oil and gas co before being elected to the united states congress in 1984 20 u s house of representatives edit elections edit 1984 86 edit barton meets president ronald reagan in 1984 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 he finished first in the five candidate field with 42 and very narrowly defeated max hoyt in the runoff with 50 21 22 he then defeated democratic nominee and former state representative dan kubiak 57 43 23 barton was one of six freshmen republican u s congressmen elected from texas in 1984 known as the texas six pack 24 in 1986 barton won re election against democratic candidate pete geren who was later elected to congress from a neighboring district barton defeated geren 56 44 25 1988 2010 edit barton meets president george h w bush in 1989 barton with president george w bush during this period barton won each re election with 60 of the vote or more 26 his worst general election performance was in 2006 when he defeated democratic candidate david harris 60 37 a 23 point margin 27 the 2008 election was his second worst performance defeating democratic candidate ludwig otto by a 26 point margin 62 36 28 he was only challenged in the primary twice in this time period in 1992 and 1994 in 1992 he defeated mike mcginn 79 to 21 29 in 1994 he defeated jerry goode 89 11 30 2012 edit because of increasing controversy surrounding his record in office election battles became increasingly contentious in 2011 a super pac was formed by texas conservative groups to remove him and several other long time incumbents from office 31 the democratic national committee used barton s comments in political ads shown nationally against all republican candidates 32 several websites were created and dedicated to simply removing barton from office defeatjoebarton com was created by democratic challengers all content was later removed though the site is still owned 33 barton drew three primary challengers joe chow mayor of addison itamar gelbman a security consultant and frank c kuchar a dallas businessman and former preacher chow is texas first asian american mayor he called barton the most corrupt congressman in the state of texas 34 at the end of march 2012 barton had 1 3 million in cash on hand compared with 28 800 for chow 178 000 for gelbman and 463 for kuchar 35 2014 edit in the republican primary on march 4 barton won re nomination to a 16th term in the u s house he polled 32 579 72 7 his 2012 primary opponent frank kuchar trailed with 12 260 votes 27 3 36 on november 4 barton handily won re election over democratic opponent david cozad 2016 edit barton polled 55 197 votes 68 7 in a three candidate field for the republican house nomination in the march 1 primary election the runner up steven fowler received 17 927 votes 22 3 37 to win his 17th consecutive term in the house barton then defeated in the november 8 general election the democrat ruby faye woolridge born 1948 of arlington who had polled 22 954 votes 69 7 in her earlier three candidate democratic primary 38 barton finished with 159 444 votes 58 3 to woolridge s 106 667 39 the most any democrat had received against barton in his three decade career 39 the remaining 7 185 votes 2 6 went to the green party candidate darrel smith jr 40 2018 edit texas s filing deadline for the house seat held by barton was december 11 2017 39 the primary was held march 6 2018 39 barton initially said that he would run for reelection but announced on november 30 2017 that he would not seek reelection in 2018 41 42 if barton resigned from his seat as predicted by austin republican strategist matt mackowiak there would be a special open primary election in 2018 in which candidates from all parties would appear on a single ballot if no candidate received more than 50 of the vote then the top two vote getters regardless of party will advance to a runoff 39 43 democrat former educator ruby faye woolridge had indicated she would run for the seat as did democrats jana lynne sanchez endorsed by the new democrat coalition and the environmental group climate hawks vote party activist justin snider levii r shocklee of arlington and lawyer john duncan 44 2 45 46 47 republicans jake ellzey a retired u s navy fighter pilot and commissioner on the texas veterans commission and dr monte mark mitchell a fort worth physician attorney and custom home builder filed to oppose barton and other republican candidates for barton s seat may include state representative tony tinderholt state senators brian birdwell and konni burton ellis county commissioner paul perry and former tarrant county tax assessor collector ron wright barton s former chief of staff and district director 48 45 12 46 49 47 50 the fort worth star telegram urged that barton not seek re election 51 tim o hare the chairman of the tarrant county republican party called on barton to not seek re election and to retire from congress by the end of 2017 saying he is guilty of sexual immorality 47 49 republican state senators konni burton and brian birdwell also urged barton to not seek re election 52 53 brian mayes a dallas political consultant said barton was vulnerable in his upcoming election battle if he gets a motivated opponent and that he risked getting lumped in fairly or unfairly with sexual misconduct allegations in congress 54 barton announced on november 30 2017 that he would not seek reelection 41 tenure edit barton speaking at the 2015 lincoln dinner in fort worth barton voted against the emergency economic stabilization act of 2008 in both of its manifestations 55 56 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 the 2007 law set energy efficiency standards for light bulbs effectively eliminating most or all incandescent light bulbs barton said people don t want congress dictating what light fixtures they can use 57 barton was a member of the freedom caucus 58 and the united states congressional international conservation caucus 59 in the first session of the 115th united states congress barton was ranked the 42nd most bipartisan member of the house by the bipartisan index a metric published by the lugar center and georgetown s mccourt school of public policy to assess congressional bipartisanship 60 congressional action former chairman of the house energy and commerce committee 61 62 house sponsor of the energy policy act of 2005 63 and chairman of the house senate energy conference committee citation needed on his website he speaks of his diligent work to promote a conservative agenda and how in his first legislative victory as chairman the house overwhelmingly passed legislation to limit indecency on the public airwaves 64 both initiated and eliminated safe harbor provision for mtbe in energy policy act of 2005 65 66 co founded the congressional privacy caucus cosponsor of the anti spyware spy act initiated national institutes of health reform act of 2006 opposed the extension of the voting rights act in 2006 barton was a leading voice in congress for forcing the switch from analog to digital tv 67 68 barton has supported the auctioning off the public airwaves to private companies 69 70 global warming edit prompted by a february 2005 wall street journal article 71 barton launched an investigation that year into two climate change studies from 1998 and 1999 62 in his letters to the authors of the studies he requested details on the studies and the sources of the authors grant funding 72 the washington post condemned barton s investigation as a witch hunt 73 during former vice president al gore s testimony to the energy and commerce committee in march 2007 barton asserted to gore that you re not just off a little you re totally wrong climate scientists have refuted barton s assertion 74 stating that global warming science is uneven and evolving 75 upset with house speaker nancy pelosi s passage of global warming legislation in 2009 he said you can t regulate god 76 at the same time barton implied in 2009 that wind is a finite resource and there was a claim made that barton was suggesting that greater use of wind turbines would slow the winds down which would cause the temperature to go up 76 77 78 although a report in snopes suggested that barton was merely quoting an academic study which suggested that increased use of wind turbines might have unintended consequences for the environment and that the claim about the linkage between increased use of wind turbines and slowing down the winds was incorrect 79 in 2013 when discussing the keystone xl pipeline he referred to the genesis flood narrative in the bible to argue that current climate change isn t man made 80 barton rejects the scientific consensus on climate change that climate change is real and that human activity is the primary cause 80 81 82 83 84 barton has mocked human caused climate change according to the new york times 85 and is a long time denier of global warming according to time magazine 84 and a longtime skeptic of human involvement in climate change according to huffpost 80 in any event he suggested that humans will adapt to climate change because we can get shade 86 barton has made a reputation for his outspoken rejection of man made climate change and for his support for the oil industry according to suzanne goldenberg in the guardian 87 autism bills controversy edit barton tried to block the bipartisan combating autism act of 2006 he said that the money steered toward environmental causes of autism was not the reason he blocked passage of the bill 88 the controversy stemmed from the conflict between two bills in the house and senate barton introduced the national institutes of health reform act of 2006 89 while senator rick santorum introduced the autism bill santorum said in a cnn interview that the senate bill was intended to be fit into barton s bill in the house bill he stated that i was in constant conversation with him barton and many house members all last week in an attempt to help the nih bill come through the senate as well as try to move the combating autism bill through the senate santorum stated that the senate bill would investigate possible environmental causes while the house bill would prevent that 90 barton let the bill die in committee which upset many people who were vocal about saying barton had sacrificed the interests of autistic children in the interests of the oil and gas companies that donate heavily to his campaign 91 92 bp oil spill controversy edit in june 2010 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 93 he 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 facing hayward at the witness table barton said i apologize i do not want to live in a country where any time a citizen or a corporation does something that is legitimately wrong is subject to some sort of political pressure that is again in my words amounts to a shakedown so i apologize 94 prior to the establishment of the agreement the obama administration had been public in their criticism of bp for the oil spill 94 barton s remarks were criticized by white house spokesman robert gibbs and vice president joe biden 95 gop congressional leadership 96 as well as by barton s fellow republicans some of whom called on him to relinquish his leadership role in the house energy subcommittee 97 98 barton later said that his earlier remarks had been misconstrued and that he believed bp was responsible for the accident later that day he issued a statement apologizing for using the term shakedown and fully retracted his apology to bp 65 99 sodomy and abortion edit in 2010 barton backed a policy platform that called for re criminalizing sodomy in texas 100 he has 100 ratings from socially conservative groups such as the family research council and the christian coalition of america for his opposition to abortion and lgbtq rights 100 101 102 crew report edit the organization citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington crew put barton on its crew s most corrupt report 2011 103 104 the article stated that on barton s 2008 financial disclosure statement he inaccurately reported on the source of a natural gas interest that he bought into the share was purchased through a longtime donor and supporter who later died this was discovered by the dallas morning news in 2010 105 according to the dallas morning news article barton made over 100 000 on the investment the article and crew report both pointed out how 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 it quoted james thurber a distinguished professor of government at american university as saying if you are elected as a public servant to try to do what is right for the public generally and then you use that position to help bring in material wealth i think it s unethical 105 crew also reported that barton paid his wife terri 57 759 in salary and bonuses from his campaign funds in the 2006 election cycle 106 a spokesman said that terri served as the campaign s outreach director and planned fund raising and special events 61 in addition barton s daughter kristin was paid 12 622 in salary and bonuses and his mother nell barton was paid 7 000 for a car 61 crude oil ban edit barton expressed in september 2014 his full support of the u s lifting the 40 year old ban on crude oil exports an issue that sparked controversy among members of the republican party several research reports had found that exporting the glut of shale oil would ultimately lower u s and global fuel prices rather than raise them u s public opinion was divided on the issue 107 online poker edit barton has sought to permit online poker and regulate it on a federal level 108 to that end he has introduced the online poker act of 2011 the internet poker freedom act of 2013 and the internet poker freedom act of 2015 109 108 health care edit barton favored repealing the affordable care act aca or obamacare 110 explaining why the american health care act the house republicans bill to repeal and replace for the affordable care act failed in march 2017 barton said 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