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On the recordSeptember 19, 2013
Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the time. Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor, and I am getting ready to speak on an issue that is very close on this rule. I support all of the rules combined here, and I support the underlying legislation, but I have to stop for just a moment and discuss some things that I've heard. I agree with my gentlemen friends across the aisle in that it is about political choices, that it is about political decisions that we make on where we're going to spend money and how we're going to do that and what we believe in with regard to jobs and how jobs are being created. The Republican majority has been doing that. The Republican majority is focused on jobs. The Republican majority is focused on getting regulatory burdens off of businesses. I just spent the last month and a half in my district, and the word that I could use to describe everything was ``uncertainty.'' There is uncertainty by the business owners--the ones who write on the front of the checks--when they're saying, I want to be able to employ other people and I want to be able to help others, but, right now, I do not know if I can because I don't know. With the expanding regulation and the upcoming health care law, I don't know if I can do that. It is about political choices, and the Republican majority is making it in favor of the working class, in favor of the middle class and of those who are hurting in our country.…
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Mike Collins
Republican · Georgia

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