Michael Burgess

If there are ingredients that are proven to be unsafe, then it would be best for consumers that they not be included in cosmetics products.

While cosmetics should be safe for consumers, a retiree who makes cosmetics in their living room or garage as a hobby, or someone who is trying to start a new cosmetics business to market on a small local scale, should not have to register…

It is critical that the language in a bill that is marked up in this subcommittee and the full committee contains language stating that Federal laws preempt any State laws.

I am disappointed that this hearing today is a partisan exercise, and I hope that moving forward you will be accommodating to some remaining Republican concerns about the approach your bill has taken.

I recommended that, for insulin, in Medicare and Medicaid and CHIP, that that rebate just be given to the patient at the point of sale.

I think transparency for us to understand that differential will help us know whether we are actually getting value.

What I think is very important for us to understand is transparency and the difference.

This serves as an example of how seriously we must take the safety of the pharmaceutical supply chain.

Merely investigating contamination after patients start dying fails to adequately protect Americans.

The Energy and Commerce Committee has a history of being engaged in the safety of the pharmaceutical supply chain.

Heparin contains an active pharmaceutical ingredient that was coming from China, is still coming from China, but that ingredient was adulterated, resulting in hundreds of adverse effects and the deaths of 81 American patients.

There is an increased need for an efficient and secure pharmaceutical supply chain to ensure safe access to active pharmaceutical ingredients coming from across the globe.

This committee, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, has a long history of being engaged in the safety of the pharmaceutical supply chain.

I urge support of the underlying bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I am pleased to yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Carter), the principal author of this bill and a valuable member of the Health Subcommittee of the Committee on Energy and Commerce.

This bill continues the work of the Energy and Commerce Committee last Congress where we marked up a discussion draft of this very bill at the Health Subcommittee, which I chaired. Drug pricing remains an issue for patients in the United…

I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Carter), a valuable member of the Health Subcommittee of the Committee on Energy and Commerce.

I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Reed), the co-author of the bill.

I urge passage of this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I urge support of the amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Which is the more cost-effective way of enrolling people? Is it navigators, or is it agents and brokers?

For plan year 2017, navigators received $62.5 million in grants and enrolled 81,000 individuals.

I especially want to thank you for your work on providing coverage of cardiac stenting in ambulatory surgical centers.

I don't think anyone can reasonably categorize CMS's effort to protect vulnerable populations in nursing homes and assist States in fighting the opioid epidemic as sabotage.

Obamacare premiums will become more affordable next year--despite the dire predictions by Democrats that the Trump administration would destroy the insurance marketplaces.