Michael Burgess

I don't know why there has been such a resistance to accepting that lesson that he has shown so elegantly in Indiana.

Mr. Burgess. And those very folks begged us not to disrupt what they were receiving, and it looks like we have.

Harry Reid told Nancy Pelosi this is it, this is what you get, I can't change it.

Undermining the long-term architecture. Well, that is an elegant of talking about something when in reality what we should have been told 3 years ago...

They have created a regime over there which is almost impenetrable. So it is any wonder that no one at the State level wants to buy--they don't want to buy any more of that.

The same place all of the money comes from. Take it from someone else at the point of a spear and they give it to us willingly after we threaten them with lifetime incarceration and the impounding of all their personal property.

For far too long, Republicans have been accused of not having alternatives to the major parts of President's health care law.

It is a lot cheaper than the $2.6 trillion that this thing is going to cost.

I was prepared to authorize $30 billion. Five billion was what the federal program allowed.

They didn't want us to mess up what was already working for arguably 65 or 68 percent of the country, and they sure wanted some help with costs.

Those were the stories that people thought of, and people did come to us with that concern.

I was concerned that if the Supreme Court felt as I did that day and said look, this thing is outside the bounds that the Constitution places on the legislative branch, folks are going to have the rug pulled out from under them.

As a physician, insuring those with preexisting conditions and assuring that they have access to affordable health insurance is a top priority for me.

If anything, our party has a multitude of ideas. But one overreaching aspect of policy that there seems to be general consensus is, we do need to address the needs of Americans with what are called preexisting conditions.

You are not to deny coverage due to a preexisting condition.

We will not charge women a discriminatory premium.

Not only are you not getting health insurance, you're fined on top of it. You pay a fine, and you're still uninsured. At the end of the day, you're still uninsured.

I thank the gentleman for his participation. Being as he's from Texas, I also feel compelled to add that that 0.1 percent growth, you subtract out the jobs created in Texas this year--somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000--we're in a…

If the gentleman actually will yield for a technical correction, I don't think it's necessary any longer for the Fed to print money. They created an electronic transaction. So no trees are harmed; no ink is wasted in the process of this…

I thank the gentleman for his participation. The gentlewoman from Minnesota mentioned the effects on the economy, and the effects of this law on the economy are profound. We just passed a budget for the next fiscal year in the House of…

If the gentleman would yield for a further question. Then where do those patients go for their care? You just said it, but I would love for you to repeat it.

I'm so glad that you came to the floor because you bring up an important point. I actually want to ask you a question on one of the things that you brought up. Many people forget that access to an insurance policy, access to a Federal…

I thank the gentlelady from Minnesota for coming and participating. You have a way of saying these things that none of the rest of us are capable of, and your voice is an important one in this debate. Thank you for recognizing that there…

The FDA always looks to whether things are safe and effective, well, with the exception of tobacco.

I do hope that sets a new standard for the Administration in replying to letters from this committee.