“Joe Barton” on The Daily Caller

For more than three years, the application to build the Keystone XL Pipeline has been sitting around Washington waiting for approval. (more)

Republican House members are preparing themselves to take a stand to save the incandescent light bulb. (more)

Apple Inc. is scaling back how much information its iPhones store about where they have been and said it will stop collecting such data when consumers request it, as the company tries to quell concerns it was tracking iPhone owners. (more)

A 2006 law that requires the U.S. Justice Department to deploy a high-tech system for catching child pornographers has identified hundreds of thousands of criminal suspects — and collected extensive evidence pointing to the locations of their child victims. (more)

Why is Paris known as the City of Lights? Is it because the U.S. Congress banned Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulbs, so he had to take his invention offshore? (more)

In the early days of the 112th Congress, Reps. Joe Barton of Texas, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and Michael Burgess of Texas, all Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee, will once again step in to attempt to save the incandescent light bulb. Today or tomorrow, the three representatives will reintroduce a bill to repeal legislation that would replace the incandescent light bulb with a more energy efficient alternative. (more)

In 1949, the Federal Communications Commission created a rule requiring broadcasters to cover issues that the government deemed important, and to do so in a way that the government found “honest, equitable and balanced.” If a broadcaster did not agree to abide by this rule, the FCC reserved the right to revoke the station’s broadcasting license. This rule was called the Fairness Doctrine. The FCC abandoned it in 1987. FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, a socially conservative Democrat appointed to the FCC in 2001, would like to bring it back. (more)

Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan was elected late Tuesday to the position of chairman of powerful the House Energy and Commerce Committee. (more)

Republican Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan – the man running against Texas Rep. Joe Barton to be Chairman of the Energy and Commerce committee in the next Congress– has reversed his position on CFL light bulbs. The move is significant not only because Upton wants to be chairman of one of the House’s most powerful committees, but also because he championed the incandescent bulb ban and switch to CFLs just three short years ago. (more)

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. (more)

Rep. Joe Barton, Texas Republican, is making his final pitch to head a crucial congressional energy panel as the man truest to conservative principles, offering colleagues a detailed battle plan to take on the Obama administration on the president’s health care law and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) pending global warming regulations. (more)

Michigan Republican Rep. Fred Upton sent a letter Monday to President Obama urging him to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The letter comes on the 50th anniversary of ANWR’s establishment. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A proposal to prohibit broadband providers from blocking or discriminating against Internet traffic flowing over their networks has an uncertain future with just lukewarm support from large phone and cable service providers and fierce opposition from Republicans. (more)

If one thing is clear as November draws to a close, it is that the Republican Party is on probation. (more)

Expected Speaker-to-be John Boehner’s choice of a chair for the Committee on Energy and Commerce is seen by many as an early indicator of how much deference he will give to the more conservative incoming Republican class, but it is not clear that the decision is as black and white as it is being made out to be. (more)

National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions of Texas hinted to a group of reporters on Capitol Hill Thursday that fellow Texan Rep. Joe Barton has a good shot at chairing the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the next Congress. (more)

Rep. Joe Barton, the ranking Republican member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, said on Thursday that if he is chosen as chairman, he will push to include incoming freshmen on the committee. (more)

Eight Republican members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce publicly voiced support on Wednesday for Rep. Joe Barton of Texas to be made chair of the Committee in the coming Congress. (more)

If there is anyone who has redefined himself for the better during this time of Tea Party ascendancy, it is the man who will become the 61st Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner of Ohio. (more)

The link that you can find here leads to a list of the 95 Democrats that were in support of net neutrality legislation.  If you were curious how many of them we in the free market still have to contend with, I went ahead and did the research for you so that you could save yourself the headache of counting to zero. (more)