Washington, D.C. – Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), member of the House Rules Committee and Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health appeared on Newsmax TV’s Sean Spicer & Co. to address some of the policy issues that have arisen as a result of the coronavirus.

Here are the highlights: 

Hydroxychloroquine – a treatment for COVID-19? “Here’s the deal: it is available, it is FDA approved. Your physician could choose to use an off label-medication that is something that we do all the time in medicine. An off-label use of an FDA-approved medication is not an unusual situation. What’s unusual here is that you have just so many people that potentially could benefit and with such a high number of doses available, it puts some pressure on people to make a decision pretty quickly.”

What should be done for the oil industry? What’s going on now between the Saudis and the Russians is not helpful in the long term. We’ve got a number of smaller companies, independent companies and even larger companies in Texas that are facing some serious cash crunches because they have serious problems with liquidity. I do think the President is correct to focus on this. We did this huge response package and did not allow for the refilling of the strategic petroleum reserve while the price of petroleum is cheap. You know, it’s the old economics 101 of buying low and selling high and right now it’s low.

To watch the full interview, click here.

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