[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 103 (Thursday, July 18, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H4609]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 BRINGING FAIRNESS TO THE PLAYING FIELD

  (Mr. COLLINS of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, it's getting hot in north 
Georgia, and when it gets hot in north Georgia, I think of cut grass 
and I think of football, and I think of the lessons that I learned as I 
was growing up on that football field at Riverbend Elementary School. 
And one of the things that I learned from football was not only 
teamwork, but one of the lessons was fair play. It was being fair. It 
was being and playing with everybody having the same opportunities.
  Well, that's exactly why House Republicans this week brought to the 
floor two important bills: one to delay the implementation of the 
employer mandate, and the other to delay the implementation of the 
individual mandate.
  Why do we do that? That's a question that I've asked on this floor 
before. And it's because it is fair. Because we don't want to pick one 
or the other.
  Many times in this House, we come and pit one against the other. I 
say to this administration and to both sides of the aisle, let's play 
fair. That's why we brought it to the floor. That's what matters.
  Washington needs to be honest with the American people. This is a 
broken health care law. We just simply brought fairness to the playing 
field yesterday.

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