Michael Burgess

House Democrats blocked three bills on Saturday that would have provided funding for law enforcement, aid to small businesses, and more funding for potential coronavirus treatments. 

Democrats declined to require Dr. Rick Bright, the “whistleblower” who appeared before the House on Thursday, to testify under oath.

House Democrats rejected a motion that would have praised the American military and reaffirmed the House’s opposition to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force.

Appearing Friday on the Fox News Channel, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) revealed House Democrats are still withholding transcripts of depositions conducted by the House Intelligence Committee inside Congress’s Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) as part of their impeachment inquiry. 

Democrats rejected an amendment by Rep. Debbie Lasso (R-AZ) to require exculpatory evidence be given to the House Judiciary Committee.

Tuesday’s on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) argued that now was as good as any time to take on China of unfair trade practices.

Pro-life members of Congress and activists expressed shock on Tuesday on the failure of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

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