Michael Burgess

The President's budget sacrifices 'Einsteinian' science at the political alter of trying to compete with the private sector.

It's shameful because High Energy Physics and our broader scientific portfolio go beyond parochial interests and local politics.

We cannot cut the knees out from under NASA led human space flight.

I am asking you today that when this committee does write its budget that you preserve the funding levels in the President's Budget, or even better if possible, increase them.

A bipartisan Social Security investment commission would be created with individuals appointed by the House, the Senate, the president.

My legislation, HR 103 is an idea that grew out of a town hall meeting in my district.

Unfortunately, uncertainty in Medicare is not the only issue facing our nation's seniors.

The taxpayer has taken a pretty bad hit on this, and while I want the companies to do well, I think at some point we may have to put the taxpayers' needs and wants ahead of those of the companies.

I will object to OCS drilling even if the price at the pump goes to $10.

Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to levels in Europe, which is about $10 a gallon.

When the President was running for office, he made the statement that under his policies, energy prices will necessarily skyrocket.

I want to--here you concluded your written statement with this comment. 'I respectfully conclude with a simple request: lead us in building an alternative energy economy that can break our dependence on oil, ensure our future prosperity…

Waiting on the Federal Government, we are broke. We are probably not going to be able to help you.

I would like to see the enforcement of those contracts rather than allowing them to roll them over.

I agree with that. I was an early adopter of the hybrid technology early in the last decade.

It bothers me that there might be a fine for faith. I don't think that has ever happened before in this country.

We are facing threats from around the world, and certainly, all of us want to remain vigilant.

I get so frustrated when I hear the administration say that this is going to be free and that is going to be free.

When you allocate all those costs to the private sector, the businesses that you are looking to to create jobs, you inhibit if you do not eliminate our ability to create jobs.

And then the other thing we heard was if you are going to do anything at all, would you please help us with costs?

And I will tell you the thing that I heard over and over again, the themes that came through loud and clear to me during those summer town halls was, number one, don't disrupt the entire system.

I thought it might interest you to know that I spent the evening before we voted on the Affordable Care Act in the Rules Committee and I had a number of amendments that I tried to get made in order.

I got to tell you the Environmental Protection Agency, right now the number one problem that your asthmatic patients have today is because of the Environmental Protection Agency, and that is the prevention of the sale of an…

I am not sure, though, that what you have got in your testimony is entirely accurate because diethylstilbestrol was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1947 for the treatment of habitual miscarriage.

I am confident that this hearing will help us continue making the case that the Obama administration needs to move faster to reduce the regulatory burdens of American companies.