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Michael Clifton Burgess is an American politician and physician who has served as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 26th congressional district since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Burgess has focused on healthcare policy, leveraging his medical background to inform his legislative work. He has been involved in various committees and has advocated for issues such as medical research and veterans' healthcare. Burgess has also been a vocal supporter of conservative fiscal policies and has participated in discussions surrounding healthcare reform.
Many of us were surprised on July 2 when the administration unilaterally suspended the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act. Since there were going to be no reporting requirements under the employer mandate, how were people going to…
House Resolution 315 provides for consideration of two pieces of legislation passed by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. The first, H.R. 2218, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act of 2013 introduced by my friend on the…
I will be happy to address some of the revisionist history. If we want to talk about reality testing, how about the fact that, in September of 2008, Democrats had controlled every level of power in the United States Congress for some 20…
Let me yield myself 30 seconds for response, pending which I'm going to yield 2 minutes to the gentlelady from West Virginia. In the brief 7 months that I have spent on the Rules Committee in this Congress, there's only one time where the…
By direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 315 and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 315 Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution the…
I thought they should be interred in someplace because of the response of the security team when you wander into the kill zone.
Members of Congress are not the only ones who have apprehensions that the structure of the Department of Energy has given rise to security risks and mismanagement.
Last month, before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, Secretary Moniz testified that he would be addressing the restructuring of management and performance within the Department of Energy as one of his top priorities.
This week the Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health will begin a markup on legislation to fix a problem that Congress has been struggling with for over a decade, and that's fixing what's known as the ``doc fix,'' or the…
A lot of times we are accused of writing gobbledygook in our laws, but this is pretty straightforward.
The reason this is important is we had Secretary Sebelius and Mr. Cohen from Center for Communications Insurance Oversight here at this committee at the very end of April.
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