President and founder of the Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist, wrote a letter in support of H.R. 35, the Health Savings Act of 2017, introduced by Congressman Burgess earlier this year. This legislation ensures necessary improvements will be made to Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) allowing patients more control over how they finance their health care needs. Mr, Norquist urges all… Read more »
Washington, D.C. — Today Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) was named by House Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health for the 115th Congress.
“Being chosen as the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health is a career honor. Nearly 14 years ago, I left the medical practice that I spent my life building in North Texas to join Congress.… Read more »
Twenty-two years ago, the “Contract with America” promised voters that, if elected to Congress, Republicans would advance legislation to shrink the size of government, balance the budget, and reform major entitlement programs.
Americans voiced decisive support for these conservative principles at the polls in the 1994 election—Republicans won… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Today Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade, released his 2016 Year-End Annual Report, a comprehensive review of a year’s work that showcases his legislative accomplishments, media presence, and constituent services and correspondence throughout 2016.
Dr. Burgess notes… Read more »
As the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close and Congress passes yet another stop-gap, short-term spending bill, known as a continuing resolution, Congressman Burgess discusses the reasons why he could not support this piece of legislation that neglected to address essential issues such as the Administration's hand over of internet oversight and the influx of un-vetted Syrian refugees and immigrants crossing our borders. Read more »
Following a busy week in Washington, Dr. Burgess remarks on the election of Speaker Paul Ryan and why he believes that the Ryan Speakership gives new hope that Washington business as usual is over and that fiscal sanity will be given a chance to work. Read his full remarks here. Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade, issued the following statement on the introduction of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.
“I oppose the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 and the process by which House and Senate leadership negotiated the American people’s business. This… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade, issued the following statement on the announcement from the Department of Energy this week to cut funding for the wasteful American Centrifuge Project.
“For the past decade, the Department of Energy has failed to do its… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade, issued the following statement on the ruling of the D.C. District Court in the case United States House of Representatives v. Burwell.
“This is not only a great victory for the United States House Committee on Rules which… Read more »
Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D., today, joined U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), as well as Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) today to introduce The Foreign Medical School Accountability Fairness Act. This bipartisan, bicameral legislation ends special treatment to a small number of medical schools in the Caribbean that, in 2012, took in more than $450 million in… Read more »
