Personal Life
Joe Barton and his wife Terri own several homes in the Texas cities of Ennis and Arlington. Barton has four children, two stepchildren and five grandchildren.
Barton's office announced that, on December 15, 2005, he suffered a heart attack and was taken to George Washington University Hospital.
Barton revealed during a congressional hearing on video games that he was a video game player. He announced that he had "worked way up to Civilization IV".
Barton has also been an advocate of a playoff system to determine a national champion for college football, even introducing legislation to require that any game being marketed as a national championship game be a part of a playoff. On May 1, 2010, Barton grilled Bowl Championship Series coordinator John Swofford, saying of the BCS that, "It's like communism. You can't fix it." He also suggested that the 'C' be dropped from the BCS and it be called "the 'BS' system."
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