Honorable Michael Burgess
United States Representative, Texas, Republican
Representative Burgess, of the Twenty-Sixth District of Texas, was first elected in 2002. He was a practicing obstetrician from 1981 to 2003. He sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee, where he is Vice Chair of the Subcommittee on Health, and on the Joint Economic Committee. The following is from the January 19, 2011, House floor debate on H.R. 2, the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act. It is important that we have this vote today, and it is important that we vote to repeal this legislation. Let me be clear: I was for and supportive of reforming the…
