Michael Burgess

The Congress accommodated.

Why is it that you as his agent at the Environmental Protection Agency cannot perform your core mission under the guidance of your President?

President Obama in August of 2011 signed a very famous law now called the Budget Control Act, did he not?

I will go as long as the gentlelady wants, but I guess I have no more speakers other than myself.

I think the Congress needs to hold your agency accountable.

Is it Obamacare or Obama don't care? Tell me which it is.

Education and outreach is going to be a big part of what happens with the Affordable Care Act this summer, is it not?

You can expend funds within the fund, if that is what you are asking, yes, sir.

Open enrollment will start October 1st.

They are to go live online on October 1st. And I guess the question on everyone's mind this morning is, will you be ready?

I thank the House leadership for allowing me to utilize this hour to talk about some of the coming effects of the Affordable Care Act. The Boston Tragedy

It is a poor worker who blames his tools.

The mission of the Food and Drug Administration should be, first and foremost, on patient safety.

Thank you for being with us through this long session.

I always allude to the solo practitioner in Muleshoe, Texas, who really can't participate in an ACO.

Medicare's current benefit design needs to be reformed in a way that more adequately reflects the needs and expectations of today's seniors.

The 12,000 new beneficiaries added to Medicare every day put pressure on the system and does move it closer towards insolvency.

Typically, they would not. Medicare advantage is offering a different set of tradeoffs.

I have got to tell you, several years ago in one of the SGR fixes that I have introduced since coming to Congress, and there have been several, but one of them actually did away with Part A and Part B and melded them together.

I don't want to say whose fault is that, but why penalize the poor person who is trying to do the right thing and buying supplemental coverage with their own hard-earned dollars?

But ultimately that is why someone buys insurance, correct, so they are not hit with the entire cost of whatever the event might be that they are insured against.

I have always felt a little bit of unease by the willingness of the Administration to capitalize on, hey, I am here for creating jobs in America, building in America, and all the right things.

Why is it OK to build the pipeline from Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico, disrupt the lives of hard-working Texans, when the Administration apparently never had any intention of completing the other part of the pipeline that would actually…

I feel like it is Groundhog Day. I mean every time I come into the subcommittee, Mr. Chairman, we are talking about the Keystone pipeline.

Mr. Burgess. The architecture underlying the Affordable Care Act is anything but elegant; it is bizarre.