Michael Burgess: “As we've heard, a new Congress was elected 2 weeks ago. But now the American people are anxious because the old Congress…”

“As we've heard, a new Congress was elected 2 weeks ago. But now the American people are anxious because the old Congress is back in town to finish the unfinished business. And to be sure, there are some things that need to be taken care of; but what remains of this Congress must be careful not to overstep its bounds. We saw what happened with the passage of a deeply, deeply unpopular health care law. That repeal vote needs to come quickly in the next Congress; and, quite honestly, it can't come quickly enough. But as long as we're here, as long as we're here doing the people's business, how about if we exercised some of that famous congressional oversight and asked some of the heads of the Federal agencies to come into the relevant committees and talk about what their plans are for implementation of these rules in the health care law? What about these new Federal agencies that are being created even as we speak with new office space being rented and personnel being hired? What about these waivers that, over the last 2rac{1}{2} weeks, have just snowballed out of the White House, and what about the health exchanges that even now our State legislatures are being asked to create? Oversight was eliminated by the last Congress; it will not be overlooked by the next.”