The 30-plus year career of U.S. Representative Joe Barton (R-TX) will come to a close at the end of his current term. Barton announced on Thursday that he will not seek reelection following a scandal about sexual messages in an extramarital relationship.
Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) told a woman in 2015 to whom he sent explicit photos and videos that he would report her to the Capitol Police.
During a press conference after the attack on GOP House and Senate baseball players, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX 6) said the heroes of the day were “the police officers who attacked the shooter.”
Two hours prior to hearing about the death of Justice Antonin Scalia on Saturday, the Republican leadership in Texas passed a resolution calling for the U.S. Senate to block the confirmation of anyone nominated by President Obama. The only exception would be for positions crucial to national security.
A former Texas congressional staffer to U.S. Representative Joe Barton (R-Texas) has pleaded guilty to one count of knowingly receiving child pornography. He attempted to forward these images to his official U.S. House of Representatives email account.
Though the House is officially in recess, committee chairman Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), committee vice chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and committee chairman emeritus Joe Barton (R-TX) signed letters to Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, StemExpress, Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. (ABR), and Novogenix Laboratories. A news release posted on the committee’s website states the request for further information “build[s] on the committee’s investigation into the shocking Planned Parenthood videos released in recent weeks.”
