Political Quotes

“Madam President, I appreciate being here in the Chamber to hear the comments from my friend the Senator from New Hampshire. As she has noted, there is a small handful of States that for a host of different reasons have chosen not to impose a sales tax on their residents. As she has very well stated, this so-called Marketplace Fairness Act is not fair. It is not fair to those States that have put in place other mechanisms. Yet what we are doing through this legislation that we have pending on the floor right now is to tell States such as New Hampshire to tell States such as Alaska regardless of what your State chose to do, those who are engaged in online sales and activity are going to be scooped into the requirement of whatever State in which the individual purchasing your product lives. To me, that is absolutely not fairness within the marketplace. I think the people in Alaska, when they think about their marketplace, are looking at where they are and assuming their State's laws are going to be what they are dealing with. I thank the Senator for her comments, and in laying out very well how this measure impacts these few States. Maybe that is our problem. Maybe we do not have enough of us in terms of those States that have opted to not move forward with a sales tax. We are at a point in the evening where we had a vote to move on. We are told we are going to be taking up this measure when the Senate returns in about a week.…”