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← United States Politicians
Burgess, Michael C.
House of Representatives · Texas · Rank #573 of 621
Score
-$1.8T
Voting record
Budget votes.
At 929 dollars per patient, the military dollars this office backed could have funded pragmatic trials for about 2B patients.
Military $ Backed
$1.8T
Bills this office backed that expand military spending
Clinical Trials $
$0
Bills this office backed that include clinical trial funding
Military : Medicine
∞
Higher means more military than medicine
Score
-$1.8T
Clinical-trial funding voted for, minus military spending voted for.
Military spending voted for
$1.8T
Clinical-trial funding voted for
$0
Counted as 3.3% of NIH funding, the share NIH spends on clinical trials
Military-to-trials ratio
∞
Federal budget as a whole: 1,112:1
Spending Scale (vs All Politicians)
Military spending$1.8T
Clinical-trial funding$0
Both bars use the same scale. Clinical-trial funding is a fraction of the military spending
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Vote Record
Voted YEA
Voted NAY
Not Voting / Absent
Omnibus FY2024 — Military ($886B)NOT VOTING
Omnibus FY2024 — NIH ($47.3B)NOT VOTING
NDAA FY2025 ($895B)NOT VOTING
How We Calculate
Military $
Military $ = Σ (bill amount for each YEA vote on NDAA, supplementals, or omnibus military portion)
NDAA and supplementals count at face value. Omnibus bills count only the military appropriation (~$858–886B/yr).
Clinical Trials $
Trials $ = NIH budget × 0.033
Only 3.3% of the NIH budget funds clinical trials ($1.56B of $47.3B). The other 96.7% is basic research, overhead, and administration. Source: JAMA.
Score
Score = Clinical Trials $ − Military $
Positive = net investment in medicine. Negative = net investment in military. Everyone is negative.
Ratio
Ratio = Military $ ÷ Clinical Trials $
Higher means more military spending per dollar of clinical-trial funding. ∞ means the politician voted for military spending but for no bill with clinical-trial funding.
The Maths
Burgess, Michael C. voted for $1.8T in military spending and no clinical-trial funding.
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