Michael Burgess

Now, Tornillo was the subject of a great deal of criticism the entire time it was up during that administration.

I really would be grateful if you could provide us a little of the material, the background material, you used to base that decision.

Make no mistake about it, it's a tribute to the people who were able to get it up and functioning at the time.

As it is, the problem is not hesitancy, it is access.

That narrative is dangerous. It abdicates the responsibility of the healthcare system and us to make sure they have access.

I think it would be incumbent upon this committee, being the primarily investigative committee of the subcommittee of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, to ask those questions, and ask them thoroughly.

Widespread vaccination is the key to restoring our freedom and getting our communities back to normal.

As a physician, I believe that every American who wants a vaccine should be able to get one, and this choice must remain between an individual and their doctor and pharmacist.

It just makes you ask the question of, why would a new regulation be necessary for enhanced oil recovery if the EPA is adequately protecting ground water near oil recovery activity?

Well again, it just begs the question, has the EPA failed to protect ground water near enhanced oil recovery activity?

We should get ahead of that transition.

I have introduced a bill to reduce the expensive and burdensome permitting processes for new and advanced reactors.

It appears to me that this administration is willing to make sacrificial lambs out of coal miners, pipeliners, gas workers, just to fit his political and liberal ideology.

The environmental streamlining, the waivers, the NEPA waivers, all of that is going to be an important part, to be sure, of a clean energy plan.

I just hope that you, as the Secretary of Energy, will commit to providing this committee with those appropriate reports in a timely fashion.

We have already disadvantaged the citizens of the United States by not completing the last 100 yards of the Keystone pipeline.

I would just--you know, I would love to see the argument how this waiver would benefit--seemingly, to me, it benefits only Vladimir Putin.

To maintain our competitiveness in the global nuclear arena, we must continue to pursue advanced reactor development.

If this is the administration's definition of environmental justice, you are ignoring reality.

The bills we are considering today waste taxpayer money, they reduce competition, they harm consumers, and they harm our country.

The Democrats are trying to undo that energy independence and literally give it away.

These policies that we are talking about today are all at risk of becoming law.

We need to be mindful of things like that as we contemplate a bill like H.R. 3.

I certainly appreciate, Chairwoman Eshoo, that H.R. 19 has been included in the list of policies that we are discussing today.

So many of us know we serve in the people's House. In many ways, this is the people's committee.