Roscoe Gardner Bartlett Jr. (born June 3, 1926) is an American politician who served a member of the United States House of Representative 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

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, and graduated in 1947 with a Bachelor of Science in theology and

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and a minor in

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. 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 Doctor of Philosophy in physiology, which he earned in 1952. His academic career included lecturing at

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School of Medicine, also affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, in

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(1952–1954), and serving as an assistant professor at

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in Washington, D.C. from 1954 to 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 Maryland's 6th congressional district 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 Bartlett 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, Bartlett 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

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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 Todd Akin 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 abortion 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

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", 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 North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act. 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

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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 (Chair) ** Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces * Committee on Science, Space and Technology ** 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) * Liberty Caucus *

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

Electoral history

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1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. ...

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1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

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1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

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1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

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2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

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2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

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2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

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2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

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2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

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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. He became a senior consultant for Lineage Technologies, a cyber security group that seeks to protect supply chains. Bartlett is a vegetarian and does not drink alcohol or smoke. He also grows his own organic vegetables. Bartlett is a member of the

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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