Rep. Michael Burgess on Saturday urged his congressional colleagues to ignore their party leadership, listen to constituents and draft a meaningful bipartisan health-care reform plan.
Burgess pledged that he would not support President Barack Obama's plan, but he agreed that health-care reform is needed.
"Will we be able to ignore our leadership and work out something that will… Read more »
Health care reform is sparking passion and outrage across the country.
On Saturday, thousands of people showed up at a forum in Denton, nearly overwhelming organizers.
It's one of several being held across North Texas, where talk of health care reform is igniting controversy and tempers.
There were big crowds, and expressions of many different opinions.
"I'm a very, very… Read more »
The Valley’s Congressional delegation welcomed calls for a government study on the region’s high health care costs Monday, saying a clear analysis could only help lawmakers better understand the issue.
Their support came a week after Rep. Michael C. Burgess, R-Flower Mound, first requested that the Government Accountability Office — Congress’ investigative arm — undertake an… Read more »
Despite the popularity of the “cash for clunkers” program, several North Texas congressional members say they can’t get on board with the program they believe is just another example of excessive government spending.
As the Senate is poised to vote this week on whether to join the House in adding another $2 billion in funding to the program, one Texas senator said he doesn’t plan to… Read more »
As the healthcare debate moves out of Washington and back to Texas the decibels are rising.
North Texas members of Congress expect to hear a lot of health care hollering as they start holding town hall meetings this coming weekend.
U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett, a Democrat, didn't get the chance to end his constituent meeting over the weekend. Demonstrators ended it for him after… Read more »
Responding to a Republican congressman's request to take Obama up on his offer to meet members and review health care legislation "line by line," a White House official told POLITICO: "We’ll see if Congressman Burgess makes it to the White House – but it wouldn’t be the first time President Obama has discussed health insurance reform with him this summer." Burgess submitted a video… Read more »
The House Energy and Commerce Committee resumed work Thursday on major health care legislation, voting to establish a government-run health insurance plan, as top Republicans stepped up their criticism of the ambitious legislation.
By a vote of 35 to 24, Democrats defeated a Republican effort to eliminate a section of the bill that would create the public health insurance option.… Read more »
Lobbying efforts by Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, in Edinburg, Texas, have steered hundreds of thousands of dollars to key lawmakers in hopes of blocking reforms that would restrict ownership of hospitals by physicians, the Associated Press/Dallas Morning News reports in a follow up to an article in yesterday's New York Times. Doctor-owned hospitals "have been blamed for helping drive… Read more »
A Texas congressman is seeking a Government Accountability Office study on why Medicare costs in the McAllen area are almost double the national average.
U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R- Flower Mound, said his request was spurred by an explosive article in The New Yorker magazine that concluded physicians were overutilizing expensive tests and services to rake in government fees. He… Read more »
The House Energy and Commerce Committee resumed consideration of the massive healthcare reform bill Thursday, 10 days after proceedings were postponed for countless hours of negotiations with conservative Democrats to keep the bill's chances of passing the committee alive.
The committee recessed just before Midnight and planned to resume consideration of the bill at 10 a.m. with… Read more »
