To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, and for other purposes.
Category: Michael Burgess
Some GOP lawmakers’ block-everything mentality could imperil big-picture plans
Republican Sens. Mike Lee , left, and Rand Paul are threatening to vote against the GOP’s emerging House bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. They object to a proposed tax credit it contains.
Michael Burgess will lead the GOP charge on unwinding Obamcare
U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, speaks to a reporter in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 1, 2017. WASHINGTON – In a delegation packed with chairmen and some of the most bombastic members of Congress, one of the quieter Texas members this week took on one of the most daunting U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess , a Lewisville Republican, led his first hearings this week to unwind the Affordable Care Act, the Democrats’ 2010 health care overhaul.
Key House committee will take up first Obamacare replacement bills next week
Rep. Greg Walden , accompanied by House Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Rep. Lynn Jenkins , during a Jan. 6, 2016, news conference on Capitol Hill. Walden is chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is set to start taking up health-care reform legislation as soon as next week.