Rep. Brooks, RSC Chairman Scalise Introduce FAIR Act

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Representative Susan W. Brooks (R-IN5) and Republican Study Committee Chairman Steve Scalise (R-LA1), introduced the Freeing Americans from Inequitable Requirements Act (FAIR Act), a bill providing the same relief to American families under the President's health care law that President Obama has offered to special interests and corporations. The bill would retroactively suspend the individual mandate penalties until 2016, as has been done to the employer mandate most recently on February 10, 2014.

"The Affordable Care Act continues to make life harder for Americans struggling to pay their bills and support their families in a tough economy," Brooks said. "Sadly, President Obama won't provide individuals the same relief he's repeatedly given to corporations and special interest groups. At a time when restoring faith in our elected officials and public servants is so vitally important, this is no way to build trust between Americans and the government that serves them. The FAIR Act simply requires the President to fix this sad imbalance created by the failed implementation of his new health care law. If the employer mandate is delayed until 2016 then there's no good reason for the individual mandate to be in effect right now."

"President Obama does not have the legal authority to unilaterally rewrite laws that pick winners and losers, but that's exactly what this Administration has attempted each time it delays the law for a select few," Scalise said. "Hard-working taxpayers and their families deserve the same relief from the Obamacare train wreck that select corporations are being offered by the White House. President Obama has unilaterally delayed his unworkable and unaffordable health care law at least eighteen times, and it is only fair to simultaneously provide the same relief to the millions of hard-working Americans that he is offering to the politically connected. By repeatedly delaying key components of his signature law, President Obama has acknowledged that his health care law is failing to fulfill the many promises that were made. It's time for him to let American families off the hook as he's already done for special interests and corporations."

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