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Michael Clifton Burgess is an American politician and physician who has served as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 26th congressional district since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Burgess has focused on healthcare policy, leveraging his medical background to inform his legislative work. He has been involved in various committees and has advocated for issues such as medical research and veterans' healthcare. Burgess has also been a vocal supporter of conservative fiscal policies and has participated in discussions surrounding healthcare reform.
Talking about the statistics is one thing but I will tell you from firsthand experience, when you lose a vibrant 17 year old, a member of the golf team from one of your high schools in your hometown over the Christmas holidays, it has a…
I agree with him. Now, while he was referencing carbon capture and storage, I would reference the economic conditions that have prevailed for the past 4 or 5 years.
The excess cost of health care is what we are going after. We have done it successfully in Wisconsin.
If the Federal Government doesn't require it, the States aren't going to do it, the history is actually the opposite.
Remember the word 'affordable' is in the title. If we wanted to bring the cost of health care down, we would have invited Governor Mitch Daniels.
It has been 1,000 days since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law.
Apparently it is worthwhile for Visa. Because what is their fraud rate? .03 percent? And CMS's fraud rate is anybody's guess, but 10 percent or whatever it is?
When I send one of my staff members with my personal credit card down to Chick-fil-A to buy lunch for the office, I get a call back that says, Hey, your card is being used to charge $100 worth of Chick-fil-A here; is that OK with you?
Your answer is not giving me--I mean, I talked about the Elysian Fields and the problems that are ahead.
Eliminating inappropriate payments, payments that, in fact, embarrassingly hemorrhage from the programs, is, as Mr. Pallone pointed out, a bipartisan issue.
You owe us the ability to look at those internal documents and see what the discussion----
The crux of this hearing is to get to the bottom of what happened. We can't get to the bottom if we don't have the information.
Mr. Chairman, may I suggest that those emails are a critical part of our investigation and that we must receive those, even if it is necessary to exercise subpoena authority.
The expansion of the 4G cellular networks to a portion of radio spectrum traditionally reserved for mobile satellite communications would improve mobile satellite communications and benefit U.S. consumers needing more bandwidth for…
Whatever this side of the dais wanted was absolutely irrelevant because the Democrats had a 50-vote majority in the House and a 60-vote filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
Title 42 is a special hiring provision that Congress explicitly gave to HHS through the Public Health Services to allow HHS to attract the best and brightest.
What happens if the States don't create an exchange? Well, a Federal exchange will impose a public option.
At least that is what we are led to believe that this small amount of CFC is going to lead to all sorts of global calamities.
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