Michael Burgess

And, Chair Morelle, I just have to point out--and Chairman McGovern--that we are probably--you referenced an appropriations acknowledging that there is going to be future disaster mitigation necessary.

I do want to thank our witnesses for being here to testify, and certainly looking forward to hearing from all of you and learning about how our Nation can more efficiently plan our budget to prepare for future pandemics.

That is a model that it seems like we perhaps have lost sight of recently, but was enormously effective in the early part of the 2000s.

Well, thank you. And, again, let me just echo Chairman Morelle in thanking you for your incredible service to our Nation.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Speaker, this bill we got in short order tonight does not reflect the actual text, and once again, the Rules Committee had very short notice to consider the text without really any chance of…

I thank Representative Morelle for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, this rule provides for consideration of S.J. Res. 33, a bill to raise the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, if we defeat the previous question, we will immediately consider the Strategic Production Response Act which will require the Secretary of Energy to develop a plan to increase energy…

I am on the Energy and Commerce Committee; I am on the Budget Committee; and I am on the Rules Committee. But I am also a co-chair of the House Republican Doctors Caucus, and last week, the Surgeon General of the United States, Vivek…

You just have to ask yourself what in the heck is going on here. Doctors across this country, our heroes in the healthcare fight that we have been in the last 2 years, are facing significant cuts in their Medicare reimbursements. Instead…

I think we did set the expectation with Warp Speed. We showed what is possible by bringing together the various branches of government.

Excluding one of these deadliest drugs in the world from the mandatory sentencing is simply irresponsible, in my mind.

This is a very, very difficult, challenging problem, and we can always use more resources.

We are talking about wiping out cities here.

To explain the amendment, I now yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. McClintock), my good friend. Mr. McCLINTOCK. Madam Speaker, if the previous question is defeated, we will take up the Illegal Immigrant Payoff…

I am very pleased to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Pfluger), one of the newest members of the Texas delegation from out in west Texas, the Permian Basin.

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Reschenthaler), a valuable member of the Rules Committee.

I thank the gentleman, the chairman of the House Committee on Rules for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, you have to ask, What in the world have people been thinking today…

These cuts couldn't happen at a worse time, because they are happening right at the same time we are facing the major pressure.

But again, I would just stress it is so risky to wait until the last minute, because if something distracts us--and you may have noticed that there are a lot of things that can distract us--then the provider cuts go into effect.

The repetitive provider cuts that are coming the way of our physicians... it is an almost ten percent aggregate cut.

Trying to stop a friend from writing a $5 trillion bad check, and it has just not been easy.

Unfortunately, in the Build Back Better Act, there is a methane fee that was included.

We are, of course, talking about big-scale wind projects that down the road are a significant deliverable.

We have heard over and over again that what awaits is a manufactured crisis. The American people have some experience now dealing with manufactured crises. Since January of this year, they have seen a never-ending array of manufactured…

This is a lot of money that we are talking about. But it is not just the volumes of money; it is the velocity with which we are spending money over these last 2 years. Yes, the coronavirus is terrible. Yes, the American economy needed some…