dr. michael burgess is here to help others work through legislation and the intricacies that the rules committee needs to be aware of as we talk about such important national policy. i want to thank you both and yield this time to the gentleman to massachusetts to any statement he would like to make. >> ranking member slaughter is not here because of the snow. he is snowden in rochester, or he would be here. -- he is snowed in in rochester or he would the here. we will have a vote on repealing the affordable care act. it is a colossal waste of time and i'm not sure it is a serious effort. i want to hear from douglas elmendorf from the legit office. he gave me a ceo score because it was submitted late and they need to consider it. we will consider it without a cbo score. four years ago my republican friends passed the bill in the house that required all of the appropriate committees to report back to the house legislation that would constitute a replacement to the affordable care act. that was four years ago. i don't know what the hell people have been doing, maybe we consume them for not doing t

dr. michael burgess is here to help us work through not only the legislation but the intricacies that the rules committee needs to be aware of as we talk about such important national policy. i want to thank both of you. i would like to yield time to the gentleman from massachusetts for an essay that he would like to bake. c thank you mr. chairman and let me say that ranking member slaughters not here today because of the snow. she is snowed in rochester otherwise she would be here. the other thing is look this is the 57th time we are going to have a vote on repealing the affordable care act. i think it's a colossal waste of time and i'm not even sure this is a serious effort. i have a letter here from douglas elmendorf of the congressional budget office. they can't even give the cbo score on this because it was minutes away than they need more time to put it together so we will consider this another cbo score. the other thing is four years ago my republican friends passed a bill in the house that required all of the appropriate committees to report back to the house legislation that woul

dr. michael burgess is here to help us work through the legislation, and the intricacies that the rules committee needs to be aware of as we talk about such important national policy. i want to thank both of you. >> thank you. let me say ranking slaughter is not here today because of the snow. otherwise she would be here. the other thing is look, this is the 57th time that we are going to have a vote on repealing the affordable care act i think this is a colossal waste of time. i'm not sure this is a serious effort. i got a letter from douglas from the congressional budget office, they can't give a cbo score. they needed more time to put together a score four years ago, four years ago my republican friends passed a bill in the house that required all these -- all the committees back to the house legislation, that would constitute a replacement sfoor the affordable care act. that was four years ago, i don't know what people have been doing. maybe we could sue them because they haven't done their job. but going through this one more time, is to me a waste of taxpayer money. i would just say one thi

dr. michael burgess, from lewisville texas. dr. burgess is not just a proud member of our delegation and a proud member who represents texas, just as i do, born in waco texas, but i stand today for why texas is a great state. evidently we've got to defend our honor. it was done last night in the rules committee, it's being done today on the floor of the house of representatives. i stand in defense of texas, although texas i don't think really needs much defense. texans are a proud people. and we've been a proud people since the days of the alamo. that's when we used to be our own nation. texans are fiercely independent and we i think, lead to the very best, not only for ourself, but we're trying to do that also for america. texas is thriving and the reason why we're thrivinging is because of economic growth. robust job creation and overall quality of life. american family -- american families and businesses all across this country, i think look to texas as the leader in freedom and economic opportunity. that's what the lone star st