Roscoe Bartlett

Job Title: 
Congressman
Organization: 
U.S. House of Representatives
Conversation: 
Averting a Liquid Fuel Crisis From Peak Oil

Congressman Roscoe Bartlett considers himself a constitutional
conservative and citizen-legislator, not a politician.  He was first
elected to public office representing Maryland’s Sixth District in the
103rd Congress and is now serving his seventh term in the 109th
Congress.  Congressman Bartlett serves as Chairman of the Projection
Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee.   A small
business owner for ten years, Congressman Bartlett is the Vice Chairman
of the Small Business Committee.  One of three scientists in the
Congress, he is also a senior member of the Science Committee. 
Congressman
Bartlett earned a Bachelor’s Degree in theology and biology from
Columbia Union College and went on to earn both a Masters and Ph.D. in
Human Physiology from University of Maryland at College Park. 
Congressman Bartlett was awarded 20 patents during his scientific,
engineering, and teaching career and authored more than 100 studies
published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.  In 1999, the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) awarded him its
Jeffries Aerospace Medicine and Life Sciences Award for his career
contributions to the advancement of medical knowledge and technologies
in aviation and aerospace exploration.