Rep. Burgess joins Newsmax special to discuss the Trump Administration's response to COVID-19. Read more »

Rep. Michael Burgess appears on Fox and Friends Weekend to discuss the idea of a COVID-19 testing plan for Congress.  Read more »

by Kat Jercich  This week, U.S. Reps Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., and Dr. Michael C. Burgess, R-Texas, introduced legislation aimed at increasing telehealth access, particularly for children.   The Telehealth Improvement for Kids’ Essential Services, or TIKES, Act of 2020 would require the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to issue… Read more »

by Nemours Children's Health System WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Nemours Children's Health System applauds Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Congressman Michael C. Burgess (R-Texas) for their leadership in introducing the Telehealth Improvement for Kids' Essential Services (TIKES) Act of 2020. Nemours has been… Read more »

by Kate Macri Rep. Michael Burgess' own health care focuses have shifted in light of the pandemic. f one good thing came of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the expansion of telehealth and digital health services. At a GovernmentCIO Media & Research event on digital health modernization last week, Rep. Michael Burgess discussed how some of his key focus areas in Congress… Read more »

by Jordan Smith The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the American Competitiveness on More Productive Emerging Tech Economy (COMPETE Act) and the Consumer Safety Technology Act (H.R. 8128), both now move to the Senate for consideration. The COMPETE Act is a bipartisan piece of legislation meant to “restore American global competitiveness in emerging technologies” and calls… Read more »

by Eric Wicklund October 01, 2020 - A new bill before Congress aims to improve telehealth coverage for children through state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) services. The Telehealth Improvement for Kids’ Essential Services (TIKES) Act of 2020, introduced this week by US Reps. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) and Michael Burgess, MD (R-TX), would “provide… Read more »

by Brandi Vincent and Mariam Baksh A batch of bills aimed at improving the cybersecurity and reliability of the energy sector and informing the United States’ use of emerging technologies, such as blockchain and quantum computing, passed the House Tuesday and now head to the Senate for consideration.  Here’s a rundown on what the bills do. Grid Security Research and Development… Read more »

Congressman Michael Burgess joined the WBAP Morning News to fill us in on what Congress is working on while the world is focused on Election 2020.  Published here. Read more »

Rep. Pressley: "Our nation’s maternal mortality crisis has robbed us of Black mothers at nearly four times the rate of white mothers. The maternal mortality crisis is a racial justice issue and must be treated as the urgent epidemic that it is." Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) released the following statement on the House passage of H.R. 4996, the Helping MOMS Act,… Read more »