Michael Burgess

I want you to have the data and I want you to have access.

The Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy acted. Although there may have been problems leading up to the crisis, their response to the crisis and after seems much more reasonable than what I have seen under the Federal regulatory agency.

So you know this stuff is high risk.

As a consequence you had 50 deaths and 500 people who are living with long-term disability as a consequence of the Exserohilum in the betamethasone.

You know what? I disagree. Because do you not have power under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to regulate manufacturers?

Frankly, if you want my opinion, that we could have done more.

So, you know, the big question is, why not do something? Why not take action?

I cannot in good conscience entertain discussion of legislation when not one person has been fired, reprimanded, or held culpable at the Food and Drug Administration.

This is an example of circling the wagons after the crisis, and this member is having none of it.

The fact is one of the following statements must be true: The agency is acting without authority and risking litigation or they have the authority and have always had the authority and have simply failed to use it.

I do support the efforts to examine the role that traditional compounding pharmacists play in the healthcare system.

Without the basic tool, without that basic person involved at the clinical level, I just don't know how you deliver on the promise that you are supposed to do.

Is it in the public's interest to use limited SAMHSA funding to encourage alternate approaches to treating mental illness?

At this time, I am pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Rice).

I would like to yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the chairman of the Rules Committee, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Sessions), for his consideration.

I'd now like to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Culberson).

I am pleased now to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Iowa, Steve King.

At this time, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia, Dr. Paul Broun.

At this time I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Hurt).

I now am pleased to yield such time as she may consume to the author of the bill and a true leader in this effort, in this fight, the gentlewoman from Minnesota (Mrs. Bachmann).

I now yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Scalise).

Now I would like to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas, a member of the Budget Committee, Roger Williams.

There are going to be double-digit increases. And, of course, as the gentleman is well aware, there are different State mandates that have governed the State-regulated insurance market over time, and that may result in some of the…

Well, let me assure the gentleman from Virginia, I can promise you with absolute certainty that there was no favoritism on the part of the Obama administration toward the great State of Texas. If anything, Texas seems to be singled out for…

Why is it only in federal agencies... when you got to do budget cuts, they immediately have to hurt people?