Roscoe Gardner Bartlett Jr. (born June 3, 1926) is an American politician who was

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for , serving from 1993 to 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party and was a member of the

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. At the end of his tenure in Congress, Bartlett was the second-oldest serving member of the House of Representatives, behind fellow Republican

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Early life and education

Bartlett was born in Moorland, Kentucky, to Martha Minnick and Roscoe Gardner Bartlett. He completed his early education in a one-room schoolhouse. He attended Columbia Union College (now

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) in

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, affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and graduated in 1947 with a

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and

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and a minor in chemistry. He had intended to be a Seventh-day Adventist minister, but he was considered too young for the ministry after receiving his bachelor's degree at the age of 21. Bartlett was encouraged to attend

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at the

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. He studied

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, and

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, earning a master's degree in physiology in 1948. Bartlett was then hired as a faculty member of the university and taught anatomy, physiology and zoology while working towards his

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in physiology, which he earned in 1952. His academic career included lecturing at Loma Linda School of Medicine, also affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, in Loma Linda, California (1952–1954), and serving as an

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(1954–1956).

Political career

Elections

;1980 In 1980, Bartlett ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate. In the Republican primary, he ranked fourth with 7% of the vote, losing to incumbent

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, who won the primary with 55% of the vote. ;1982 In 1982, Bartlett ran for Congress in against incumbent Democratic U.S. Congresswoman Beverly Byron. He won the Republican primary with 52% of the vote. In the general election, Byron defeated him 74%–26%. ;1992 He ran again in the newly redrawn 6th congressional district and won the Republican primary with 42% of the vote. Byron was upset by a somewhat more liberal Democrat, State Delegate Thomas Hattery, in the Democratic primary. Many conservative Democrats switched their support to Bartlett in November, as he defeated Hattery 54%–46%. ;1994–2006 During this time period, he repeatedly won re-election with at least 56% of the vote. ;2008 According to the ''

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'', Bartlett had under-reported property sales by over $1 million since 2004 on his official financial disclosure forms, and made $299,000 in unreported loans in order to sell his daughter's home, over which he exercised

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. Bartlett said that the under-reporting was an oversight and that he was a "bit player" in the real estate transactions. ;2010 As the lone Republican in Maryland's congressional delegation, Bartlett won reelection in 2010 at the age of 84. On June 1, 2009, Democrat and Iraq war veteran Andrew Duck formally announced a campaign for Congressman Bartlett's seat. ;2012 Bartlett's district was significantly altered in redistricting plans released in October 2011, which was described as

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. The new district lines shifted the district slightly to the south, adding some heavily Democratic territory closer to Washington DC. Specifically, the redistricting plan shifted a mostly Republican section of Frederick County and an even more heavily Republican section of Carroll County to the heavily Democratic 8th district. It also lost heavily Republican sections of Harford and

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counties, as well as another section of Carroll, to the already heavily Republican 1st district. In their place, the legislature added a heavily Democratic section of Montgomery County. While John McCain carried the old 6th with 57 percent of the vote,

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would have carried the reconfigured 6th with 56 percent of the vote. Bartlett faced Democrat John Delaney and Libertarian Nickolaus Mueller in his bid for reelection. In 2012, the

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fined Bartlett $5,000 for repeatedly failing to submit accurate campaign finance disclosure reports. Bartlett hired an accountant to address any outstanding disclosure issues. When fellow Congressman

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made inappropriate comments about female biology, Bartlett immediately repudiated them, adding "There is no room in politics for these types of statements...As a human physiologist I know there is no scientific backing to Todd's claims." He said his view on

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exceptions has been "the same for twenty years. I'm

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, with exceptions for the life of the mother, rape and incest...I'm so avidly pro-life I'm against corporal punishment", later adding that a very small proportion of abortions are a result of rape; however, in 2001 Bartlett had supported a constitutional amendment which did not include the rape and incest exceptions. "The Maryland Democratic Party went after Bartlett", trying to connect Todd Akin's comments to Bartlett. Bartlett was heavily defeated in the general election by Delaney, taking only 38 percent of the vote to Delaney's 59 percent.

Tenure

In November 1997, Bartlett was one of eighteen Republicans in the House to co-sponsor a resolution by

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that sought to launch an impeachment inquiry against President

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. The resolution did not specify any charges or allegations. This was an early effort to

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Clinton, predating the eruption of the

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, which ultimately lead to the impeachment of Clinton in 1998. On October 8, 1998, Bartlett voted in favor of legislation that was passed to open an impeachment inquiry. On December 19, 1998, Bartlett voted in favor of all four proposed

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against Clinton (two of which received the needed majority of votes to pass). In 1993, Bartlett voted against the

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. In August 2011, Bartlett wrote an op-ed in ''

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'' calling for an end to invasive research on primates. Bartlett, who had previously conducted research on primates in connection with the U.S. space program, joined with Senator

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in introducing the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act. It is estimated to save the federal government $300 million over the next 10 years, if passed. Press reports indicate that Bartlett's Political Action Committee is named Because All Responsible Taxpayers Like Every Truth Told PAC, or BARTLETT PAC for short. Press reports indicate Bartlett was instrumental in arranging House hearings on the dangers of an

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attack on the United States. Bartlett is against the Senate bill to fund the

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with an additional 33 billion dollars, calling it an "irresponsible bailout"—though he does claim to support "... maintaining next day delivery standards in rural areas that would keep the Cumberland mail processing facility open." Bartlett believes in the geologic theory of

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, and predicts that "the end of cheap oil and natural gas is coming and coming fast" as increasing global demand for energy overwhelms production. In 2005, Bartlett established the Congressional Peak Oil Caucus with Rep.

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of New Mexico. Bartlett has argued that federal revenues from offshore oil and gas production should be invested in developing renewable energies. At a town hall meeting in September 2012, Bartlett claimed that federal student loans were unconstitutional and that disregarding the Constitution was a "very slippery slope" towards an event like the

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. Bartlett later apologized for his remarks.

Committee assignments

* Committee on Armed Services ** Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces (Chairman) ** Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces *

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** Subcommittee on Research and Science Education ** Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment * Committee on Small Business ** Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy and Trade

Caucus memberships

* Peak Oil Caucus (Founding member) *

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* Congressional Caucus on Turkey and Turkish Americans * Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus

Electoral history

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2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

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, bgcolor=#FFE8E8 , 110,842 , bgcolor=#FFE8E8 , 38.2 , , bgcolor=#DDEEFF , John Delaney , bgcolor=#DDEEFF , Democratic , bgcolor=#DDEEFF , 169,303 , bgcolor=#DDEEFF , 58.4 , , , Nickolaus Mueller , , Libertarian , , 9,383 , , 3.2

Personal life

Bartlett and his wife Ellen have 10 children (of whom one, Joseph R. Bartlett, is a former member of the

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), 17 grandchildren, and 2 great-grandchildren. Following his defeat for re-election, Bartlett decided with his wife to live "

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" in the

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mountains. Their cabin lacks electricity, phone service, and municipal plumbing. Bartlett currently works as a senior consultant for Lineage Technologies, a cyber security group that seeks to protect supply chains. Bartlett is a

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and does not drink alcohol or smoke. He also grows his own organic vegetables.

References

External links

Representative Roscoe Bartlett
official U.S. House website * *
Profile
at

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An interview with Rep. Bartlett regarding peak oil
April 18, 2005

May 2005

February 2005
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