Immigration policy needs to recognize that many Americans do not have jobs and decent wages, GOP Rep. Michael Burgess told an audience at a CPAC panel February 22.
Seventeen Members of Congress, including two powerful committee chairmen from Texas, have asked President Obama to raise travel warnings to Level 3 for countries with high levels of the Zika virus.
On Friday’s Laura Ingraham radio show broadcast, House Trade Subcommittee Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) warned that if the controversial Trade Promotion Authority legislation considered by the House of Representatives Friday. According to Burgess, once the TPA is set in motion,
Chief Obamatrade proponent House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) admitted during Congressional testimony on Wednesday evening that despite tons of claims from him and other Obamatrade supporters to the contrary, the process is highly secretive. He also made a gaffe in his House Rules Committee testimony on par with former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s push to pass Obamacare, in which she said infamously said: “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
Seven-term Republican Congressman Michael Burgess’ (R-TX) bill on Patent protection has been voted through the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The bill is now making its way to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C.
Texas Congressman Michael Burgess, M.D. was elected to serve as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade (CMT) for the 114th Congress which starts in January, 2015. Burgess previously serves as vice-chair of the
The number of lawmakers backing a travel ban for incoming travel from Ebola “hot zone” countries has jumped from a bipartisan group of 26 members of Congress to 70, reports The Hill. The congressional coalition, made up mostly of Republicans,
During testimony before the House Oversight Committee Thursday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Marilyn Tavenner admitted that the White House’s original number of eight million Obamacare enrollments was inflated. The real number, Tavenner now claims, is 7.3 million. Oversight
Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) laid the blame for the “humanitarian crisis” of unaccompanied minors surging across the U.S.-Mexico border squarely on President Obama’s “lawlessness” at a press conference with Attorney General Greg Abbott (R-TX) and Congressman Michael Burgess (R-TX)
The man responsible for heading the agency in charge of crafting Obamacare rules and establishing regulations for the troubled and unpopular Obamacare exchanges has resigned. On March 31, the day Obamacare enrollment officially comes to a close, Gary Cohen, a former
Though the Obamacare data hub has experienced outages that have sometimes lasted for days since the Obamacare launch and may be vulnerable to hackers, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Wednesday that the data hub “has worked
During a House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on Thursday, the top Obamacare implementation official for the administration refused to answer “yes” or “no” when asked whether Obamacare’s exchanges will be ready for Americans to enroll in
During her interview with Congressman Michael Burgess, CNN’s Soledad O’Brien actually tried to make the case that the Obama Administration’s leak of his immigration proposal was an example of the president leading in the controversial issue…
Following Seung-Hui Cho’s 2007 shooting spree at Virginia Tech, President George W. Bush put forth mental health proposals aimed at identifying and treating people who might have the propensity for such heinous crimes–people like Adam Lanza. However, Bush’s proposals were
Because he walked into the lion’s den unprepared for the left-wing buzz-saw that is Soledad O’Brien, Texas Republican Congressman Michael Burgess just got his head handed to him on national cable television. Burgess is one of 97 Republicans who signed
That is, if she wants to be critical of Paul Ryan’s plan. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was quick to say that seniors would “die sooner” under the Ryan Medicare plan, but did she even read it and furthermore does she
In 1879, Thomas Edison developed the incandescent light bulb with a small carbonized filament and a vacuum inside a globe. An electric lighting system was born–as convenient, safe and economical of a choice for consumers in his day as it
The Obama-Pelosi Regime took control of one-sixth of the nation’s economy when they passed their nationalized health care bill and signed it into law in late March. The bill was never popular but Democrats persisted and rammed the bill through
Wednesday, 12 conservative organizations sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions demanding that Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings be Fired. ** You can contact the committee yourself here. This letter was delivered by
Media Matters congratulated itself yesterday for its stellar defense of Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings, whose organization held conferences where teens as young as 14 years old were taught about fisting (“It gets a bad rap.“) and the
The Soros-linked far left Media Matters today announced that the Kevin Jennings GLSEN scandal reported here on this blog and at Big Government is a non-scandal that was rightfully ignored by the state-run media. Here’s a question: If it is
