Honorable Michael C. Burgess
U.S. Representative, Texas, Republican
Michael C. Burgess was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002. He is a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The following is from Representative Burgess’s October 15, 2007, statement on the floor of the House of Representatives. Everyone regrets what happened at the end of the First WorldWar, but we are in the midst of a very complicated war, a complicated war inwhich every ally is valuable to our war effort. Thisresolution has the potential to inflict damage on the United States-Turkishrelationship such that it would be very difficult to repair it, and…