Michael Burgess

Welcome to our hearing on advanced robotics, technology that has made its way into the United States in a variety of sectors.

I advise the minority that we have no additional speakers. I reserve the balance of my time.

I am pleased to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Lance), the author of the bill and vice chairman of the subcommittee.

We want those things that are supposed to be there by now, and I would include this as one of those things that we want to be there by now.

We are going to be looking at legislation that seeks to identify and improve the overall public health of our country.

We want it removed and permanently dealt with so the people there can feel comfortable with what they are getting out of their groundwater.

The community was united on not having a short-term solution.

We have called for the EPA to fully dredge and remove the toxins from the San Jacinto River.

As the sponsor of the 21st Century Cures Act, with my good friend and colleague, Congresswoman Diana DeGette, it's no secret that we have been fighting to modernize and personalize our health care system to find faster cures and better…

Again, I think that the bar for safety is lower when it is physician-to-physician or when it is data being provided to a physician.

The potential comes in part from enabling both sides of the equation: doctors and patients.

I am encouraged by this emerging technology within the healthcare system, and I look forward this morning to examining how it is transforming the way in which doctors, patients and consumers approach and manage the delivery of care.

With health care being 17 percent of the Nation's economy, it seems appropriate for the Disrupter Series to be in this space.

Good morning. Thanks to everyone for being here. It is a hearing I have been looking forward to for some time.

This bill has the potential to save American lives here at home as well as abroad.

The nation was riveted upon the emergency rooms at Parkland, at Baylor Hospital and the country stands in awe of the service that was rendered to fallen police officers during that sad interval in our nation's history.

A partnership between our military and civilian health systems could bolster the availability of an expert work force in two ways, first by integrating military providers into civilian systems and second, military providers would be able…

This Administration has disregarded the Constitution by taking and transferring money from the authorized and funded premium tax credit account to the Cost Sharing Reduction Program.

I certainly want to second his comment about the Department of Health and Human Services owed us the presence of the Secretary or an appropriate designee to continue to investigate this issue.

I continue to reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Matsui).

It did come up in my district. We had a constituent case earlier this year.

Regardless of how you feel about the Affordable Care Act, I don't think there is any question that the fractures are becoming apparent and they are growing.

This is a very good hearing for us to be having right now and I am very grateful that you have called it.

It is important that we be talking and we be talking now about what we can do to help people when those inevitable failures do occur.

I would merely observe that, in calendar year 2007, the political analyst George Will opined at the end of that year that the American Congress essentially had two mandates, to deliver the mail and defend the borders, that it had failed…