Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. I appreciate it very much.

this is a day that has been 20 years in the making. You have heard argument after argument here about how this bill has been rushed, how it is not ready, how we have not yet had enough debate or deliberation. I tell you on behalf of the…

And I just want to say again, thank you for coming today and, you know, during these times where we have to reduce our spending in Congress, it's tough.

I think we can leverage your resources. We can do much more together even with, you know, the challenges of sequestration.

Should you make some of these reductions, are you going to continue to make that a priority?

I think there are some possibilities there because other agencies are going to find themselves in this same place you are.

Dr. Billington, you have testified to the importance of preserving our Nation's priceless manuscripts through a process called de-acidification.

I want to thank you again for the USGS study that came out updating the recoverable oil reserves in North Dakota.

We are confronted with the same challenges we had last go-round, of course, and that is making everything work in these times of tight budgets.

One of the things we worked very hard on in the last session was funding for the Capitol dome, which needs to be updated and repaired.

This is a matter of national security, not just economic security.

I think to talk about it as though there would never be a spill would be inaccurate, but I think it is also to talk about as though a spill is somehow going to ruin the world is also inaccurate.

I think in situ process is interesting. It has become better and better and it always will be.

and my friend from Montana, we will provide the citations and the Supreme Court cases that talk about the exertion of jurisdiction over foreign corporations by State taxing authorities. I will offer up this document which outlines that we…

I say to the Senator from Montana, what the bill exerts jurisdiction over is remote sellers. It does not differentiate whether they are foreign nationals or domestic corporations. In State law we have the ability to enforce State laws…

I wish to clarify one point about nexus versus commerce clause, and I think it has been misstated about tax jurisdiction. There was a case decided in the 1950s called National Bellas Hess that said remote sellers do not have nexus nor can…

in response to my friend from Tennessee, the first thing I will say is the tools we have today were not available 20 years ago. The simplification, the immediacy of buying a $15 opportunity from e-bay so you can collect sales tax in all…

I will be very brief. I want to respond to a couple of claims that have been made, especially with how they relate to foreign corporations. I think there is a sense that foreign corporations have absolutely no State tax obligations no…