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Three steps forward, two steps back on campaign finance in Congress today

Posted in Campaign Finance, Good Government, tagged charlie gonzalez, Coffee Party, Coffee Party livestream convention, Congress, DISCLOSE Act, Eric Byler, facebook, Fair Elections, Fair Elections Now Act, Joe Barton, john cornyn, kay bailey hutchinson, Lawrence Lessig, Mark McKinnon, politics, United States on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Today, the US House Administration Committee voted the Fair Elections Now Act out of committee. San Antonio Representative Charlie Gonzalez cast a decisive vote in favor of the bill, putting a bill that would give optional public financing to all Congressional candidates for further than it has ever gone before. Tell Charlie Gonzalez how you [...]

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Texas and Dirty Energy Money

Posted in Campaign Finance, Coal, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged 111th congress, bp, campaign contributions, Campaign Finance, campaign finance reform, Congress, dirty energy, dirty energy money, dirty oil, Joe Barton, john cornyn, kay bailey hutchinson, oil companies on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Recently, I learned about a good website that tracks the flow of corporate energy money in Congress. The website is a great tool for someone who is interested in knowing who gets what from who and if you are a Texan you will get to see your state initials in many places in the website. [...]

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Joe Barton has Apologizer’s Remorse

Posted in Campaign Finance, Energy, Global Warming, Good Government, tagged BP clean up, democratic primary, District 6, florida, foot in mouth, gulf of mexico oil spill, house committee on energy and commerice, isamorada, Jeff Miller, Joe Barton, Oil Industry, republican party on June 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »

So he’s sorry he was sorry. Joe Barton, District 6 Congressman, apologized yesterday for his publicity stunt of an apology to BP where he equated the $20 billion aid fund to a shakedown. He claimed that his comments over being ashamed of the White House were misconstructed, as in constructed badly, kinda like that leaky [...]

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Joe Barton Fact Check on Citizens United

Posted in Campaign Finance, tagged citizens united, Fair Elections Now Act, Joe Barton, NPR, u.s. supreme court on February 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »

This morning on NPR, Congressman Joe Barton (R-Arlington/Ennis) made some statements on how the massive influx of corporate money because of the Citizens United decision might not be so bad after all. The entire story is worth a listen, and can be found by going here to NPR’s website. Here’s what he said, and let’s [...]

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Year in Review: The Little Climate Bill That Couldn’t

Posted in Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, tagged agribusiness, appliance standards, building codes, climate bill, climate change, coal industry, Energy Efficiency, environment and public works committee, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, finance committee, giveaways, Global Warming, house energy and commerce committee, james inhofe, Joe Barton, joe lieberman, john kerry, lindsey graham, Markey, nine inch nails, nuclear industry, obama, offsets, Public Citizen, renewable energy, Waxman, year in review on January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

EDITOR’S NOTE: At this rate, we may actually finish reviewing the year in blog 2009 by the end of January 2010– just how we wanted to start the year!! But… stuff keeps happening…. and we can’t blog! Or we have to blog about the important, breaking news stuff! So, sorry for dragging this out, but [...]

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House Committee Passes Landmark Clean Energy Legislation

Posted in Global Warming, tagged ACES, allowances, american clean energy and security act, andy wilson, cap and trade, carbon credits, Carbon Dioxide, charlie gonzalez, charlie melancon, climate change, ed markey, energy and commerce committee, EPA, Gene Green, giveaways, Global Warming, government accountability office, green jobs, henry waxman, hr 2454, ipcc, jim matheson, Joe Barton, john barrow, mike ross, president obama, rick boucher, union of concerned scientists on May 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Public Citizen disappointed by process as Big Money works to weaken, kill bill Statement by Andy Wilson, Global Warming Program Director, Texas Office This evening, the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed HR 2454, The American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES or ACESA), sponsored by Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA), by a [...]

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EPA’s Declaration that Greenhouse Gas Emissions Endanger Public is Long Overdue

Posted in Global Warming, tagged andy wilson, cap and trade, Carbon Dioxide, charlie gonzalez, citizen andy, clean air act, climate change, co2, coal plant, Congress, drought, endangerment finding, EPA, Gene Green, Global Warming, greenhouse gasses, house energy and commerce, Joe Barton, Lisa Jackson, lowered crop yields, Markey, mass v epa, michael burgess, president obama, Public Citizen, supreme court, Texas, Waxman on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

NEWSFLASH! Carbon Dioxide emissions may represent a threat to public health or welfare. Shocking, I know. But what is old news to the rest of us, released in the form of a proposed endangerment finding by the EPA, is actually a really big deal. Environmentalists and concerned citizens alike have been waiting years for this [...]

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Phthalates: Banned in Mexico, OK in Texas?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Congress, consumer product safety commission, consumer protection, Joe Barton, phthalates, Toxics on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Today’s Dallas Morning News editorializes about banning phthalates, (pronounced THAL-ates), a chemical made from petroleum that makes plastics bendable and has already been banned in Europe, California, Washington, and even Mexico. Among the top products that use phthalates in their plastics? Children’s toys. As a father of two children under the age of 3 whose [...]

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