At a Missouri fundraiser today, President Obama brought up Joe Barton and his apology to BP again, 22 days after the hearing in which the Texas Republican made his infamous remarks.

In other news, we’re at day 78 of the oil spill. A new simulation “shows oil passing through the narrow channel between the tip of the Florida peninsula and the Bahamas before spreading into the Atlantic in August, then washing ashore on southeastern beaches in October or November.”

There’s a report of tar balls on Florida’s east coast, off Cape Canaveral, but it’s not yet clear it’s from the BP spill.