May I ask the chairman, did he not, as Attorney General of Alabama, advise the local district attorneys they could not enforce a law passed by the Alabama State legislature----

I wonder if the chairman remembers--I have heard a lot of talk tonight about what a great protection of minority rights the filibuster is.

I am trying to think back to the 1950s and the 1960s. How many rights of African Americans in the South were protected by the filibuster in the 1950s?

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What we are saying in our amendment is if the Senator from Delaware or I hook up a computer to the Internet, our amendment would prohibit State and local governments from taxing that event; isn't that right?

So from the point of view of the Federal Government interfering with local governments, we would be making a pretty significant interference there because we would be affording to the Internet access connection a protection that we didn't…

First is, no taxation of Internet access. I have yet to run into a Senator who really wants to tax Internet access. Virtually all of us are willing to keep State and local governments from taxing Internet access. I am a little bit of a…

There is a letter that I received yesterday from the Congressional Budget Office on every Senator's desk. It describes the three ways in which the proposed ban on State and local Internet access taxes by Senator Allen and Senator Wyden…

I think it is a part of the tradition of the Senate that it be the saucer in which the coffee cools. What we have found over the last several days is, as our colleagues on both sides of the aisle have looked at this unfunded Federal…

I believe I heard him say that the attorney general of Alabama wrote a letter to every school district in Alabama, every superintendent and every school, telling them that the football coach could not lead a prayer before the football…

Then, Mr. President, I believe the Senator from Alabama talked about the situation going on there today where the chief judge is embroiled in a great controversy over whether the Ten Commandments have to be taken out of the courtroom. I…

As I was listening to the Senator from Alabama, and maybe he will correct me if I have this wrong, but we are talking about Alabama, this is not Brooklyn, NY, we are talking about; right? And we are talking about the attorney general of…

Again, thoroughly unpopular. Alabama is interested in football and Alabama is interested in prayer, and for a public official to write every school and tell them they cannot pray before a football game is not an easy thing to do, even if…

I am going to just guess, having lived a long time in a State that borders Alabama, that it is higher than that in Alabama. If I understood the Senator from Alabama correctly, here is the attorney general of Alabama, who may also agree…

If we had never heard of this individual and someone came today and said he is attorney general of the State of Alabama, and he voluntarily scolded the State for still having interracial marriage words in the State constitution at a time…

Then there are some other steps that have to be taken. Not only is it defined as an unfunded intergovernmental mandate, there has to be a certain threshold of spending, $50 million adjusted by inflation, which today would be $64 million…

I thank the Chair. Let me go to my first point, why this proposed legislation is an unfunded mandate. The proposed legislation is an unfunded mandate because it would make it illegal for these States to continue to collect State and local…

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