Michael Burgess

President Obama is trying to address these challenges, and we should support those efforts.

This epidemic will surely go down in history as one of the most serious public health crises of the last 100 years.

I hope we can move quickly to provide the requested appropriations.

It is critical that Congress support this appropriations request.

It is a credit to our country that we are leading the effort to end the epidemic in West Africa.

It is impossible for the American people to understand why the Government would have one standard for the military and yet another standard for people who may have been in the same, or possibly more perilous circumstances.

The administration's additional funding request states that money will go toward 50 Ebola treatment centers throughout the United States.

They should stay away.

We know the numbers in western Africa are going up on Ebola. We know the case rate is going to increase.

I think perhaps this committee should consider forwarding to the full House a request that we have a vote on travel restriction.

Hippocrates was right: patients lie. About a third of patients don't take medication as prescribed and a third don't take them at all.

We cannot guarantee the safety of our health care workers on the front lines.

America's response to the Evola Virus Disease outbreak is not a political issue, it is a public health crisis and a very dire one at that.

I am fully in favor of individuals who have been diagnosed that they do be taken care of in centers.

I believe that authority very clearly exists.

We are here today because we need answers to our questions about both the CDC's and the administration's flawed responses.

I don't think we should ever try to put the Federal Government in the position of second guessing the judgment of a physician.

Antibiotic resistance, specifically resistant strains, is a growing problem.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for correctly outlining that suicide amongst veterans that have recently attracted national headlines, and appropriately so.

For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Polis), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the…

I was required by law to report to State authorities if I thought a child had been abused, let alone was a victim of sexual assault.

At this time, I yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Smith), who will provide our closing.

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

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

At this time, I would like to yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Kansas, Congresswoman Jenkins, the author of the bill.