Michael Burgess

I only wish we could have gotten more.

It is a shame that this committee has been stonewalled.

It seems that if the White House is serious about regulatory reform, this is something where all parties should be anxious to work together.

You may be familiar that members of the Texas delegation on a bipartisan basis on this committee met with Mr. Sunstein of Office of Management and Budget right before the August recess concerning the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule and the…

Putting an industry with a critical infrastructure in the position of choosing which agency's rules to violate is bad public policy.

Did we just ignore FERC's recommendations? Because they don't seem to be completely coincident with the decisions that you made.

I would argue that that is going to have a significant impact on public health.

Chairman Waxman--ranking member--said that we don't believe in the science. Well, yes, that is right.

I would further ask the question, I am sure you made the President aware of this, does the President not care about the health of Americans by delaying the Ozone Rule?

So much has been said on the other side that I need to refute and yet there are some things that I need to get out here.

Would not provide one scintilla of improvement in the air we breathe.

Although you work for the Executive Branch, Congress is a coequal branch of government.

I think no one now believes those figures that were originally delivered to us by the CBO and even the Chief Actuary for CMS has said the cost is going to be some $450 billion over 10 years higher than what was advertised in March of 2010.

But by regulation, working the MLR regulation at HHS, they decided to sort of pick and choose which taxes are exempt from the calculation.

The phrase I have heard associated with that is something magic happens when people spend their own money for health care, even if it wasn't their own money in the first place.

It troubles me that it occurred the way it did. It was seemingly something that was under the radar screen.

If people like what they have, they may not able to keep it. I think that is a fair statement.

Remember, the big selling point on the Affordable Care Act was, if you like what you have, you can keep it.

I suspect there will be some new questions that come up as a result of our interaction today.

Today we are going to look at two of these requirements in some depth but honestly, the list is much, much longer, and we are going to hear from some of those folks who are on the ground dealing with this, but I am afraid we may be too…

I think it is very important that we have the Secretary of Energy and the chairman.

Sir, we subpoenaed the documents in July. You can't characterize that as cooperation.

This is a different universe and your response as a venture capitalist is likely not consistent with being a good steward of the taxpayers' money.

We do want the availability of solar at the retail level of this country.

We are a coequal branch of government. We have a responsibility to protect the people's money as well.