Each authorizing committee has jurisdiction over a set of government agencies. The authorizing committees write bills that give authority to the appropriations committee to designate certain amounts of money to specific government agencies, programs, etc. HARRIS: There are authorizing committees and an appropriations committee. Of course, Congress is a full-time job, so I now only see patients 10 days a year at a community hospital on the Eastern Shore, though I’m still on faculty at Johns Hopkins. I was also in a department that was large enough to have the flexibility to allow me to be away from the hospital for those three months. HARRIS: It’s relatively simple in Maryland because the state Senate meets only three months per year, so it's easy to build that into your schedule, if you’re in a field like anesthesiology where there’s no longitudinal care of patients.
I saw a need for people with real-world experience. There are only 17 physicians in the House (out of 435) and three in the Senate (out of 100), but well over a quarter of our federal expenditures are on health care-and that’s not even including biomedical research. My parents had escaped communism in Hungary and Poland and realized the importance of being involved in government … In 1995, I got a master’s degree from the School of Public Health in health policy, finance and management because I was interested in many aspects of health policy: how it affects the practice of medicine and, to some extent, the finance of medicine.Īnd then I saw that the government was regulating more and more of how medicine is practiced, but that physicians were underrepresented in Congress relative to the amount of health care policy that moves through the legislature. HARRIS: I’ve always been interested in policy and politics, partly because of my background. He is currently a member of the House Committee on Appropriations and previously served as the chairman for the environmental subcommittee on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Before being elected to Congress in 2010, he was a senator in the Maryland General Assembly since 1998. congressman representing Maryland's first district.
in biology, 1976 M.D., 1980 M.P.H., 1995), Andy Harris is an anesthesiologist and a U.S. A triple alumnus of The Johns Hopkins University (B.S.
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