Michael Burgess

The last thing we need right now, is for them to be bullying the pharmacies, like they so often do.

As I said in my opening remarks, I think the biggest gain we've seen as we've now moved to almost 9, 10 million doses a week has been, really, the incredible advances of the highly skilled personnel who are operating each step of that…

It is possible to build a net-zero electricity grid that is as reliable as the grid we have today.

Energy efficiency sometimes just kind of gets pushed to the side. But it is one of the most readily available to the end energy consumer.

I do an energy efficiency summit every non-COVID year in my district, and I find it to be very well attended.

Let me remind my colleagues that America leads the world in reducing its carbon emissions and that the 2006 Waxman-Markey climate bill would have produced worse results for the environment than the results produced by the free market.

Unfortunately, President Biden's early actions, such as canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, and prohibiting new energy production on Federal lands, signal a desire to go in the opposite direction.

This is not a partisan issue. When the temperature drops below zero, no one cares which party the electricity comes from.

Americans are rightfully angry. Texans are rightfully angry and deserve answers.

So I think those things were forward leaning and, in fact, if I recall correctly, quite different from the activity we saw in 2009.

But how grateful we should be to be able to have not just the vaccine, but now, within such a short period of time, that level of distribution.

My home State of Texas, the most recent data I received-- and I will submit this, Madam Chair, for the record--but there's about 2 million doses have been administered in Texas.

But this became a priority, and the previous administration appropriately recognized that priority.

I think he was speaking as to the way the world was a year ago.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Finally, I would like to point to the bipartisan, bicameral support of H.R. 7898, which was included in title V of the Lower Health Care Costs package in the Senate. We have both Chambers and both…

I thank all of the many people, including the staffers on both of our committees, who have worked over the past decade, they have tuned and fine-tuned this policy to get it where it is today. {time} 1600

If it is so comprehensive and working so seamlessly, then why have you called us here to discuss how it has struggled to provide adequate protections for individuals during this pandemic?

Each one has a spark of divinity to them, and honoring that spark of divinity is that they will have healthcare that they and their families can depend on.

In less than 1 square mile footprint, you can have a nuclear power plant that is going to provide the same amount of low-carbon electricity generation.

I did introduce a bill with Dr. Schrier of Washington State following the measles outbreak up there last year.

I will just commit to you and anything in the future this committee can do to ensure that the security, National Nuclear Security Agency stays within the Department of Energy, I think, is critically important and I will make that…

Well, certainly that, in my opinion, was an oversight to leave the purchase of additional petroleum for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve out of the CARES Act.

I would also suggest that the Congress might want to consider perhaps upgrading some of the facility as well.

It is important that we don't limit ourselves to research and development in only one area of energy generation.

As lawmakers, we need to focus on cutting unnecessary Washington red tape and burdensome regulations.