So, Mr. Bercu, let's go to the purchase that he made today--Mr. DelBianco made today--at your store and believes he should have been charged the Virginia sales tax and he was charged the Austin, Texas.

The Main Street Fairness Act would force retailers to collect sales tax for states that join a formal tax compact.

It is about fairness, marketplace fairness.

The state has to decide whether they want to be part of this. It is not mandated on any state.

The bill would actually simplify it?

I picked up this banner when Byron Dorgan retired. This is something that he worked on with Senator Enzi over the years.

the bill pending before us is the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, as it is known, and for most people it is a term which they may have heard but may not fully understand. It was about 2 months ago that Members of the Senate, including the…

consider these ominous words: To the loved ones of the victims who are here in this room . . . to those who are watching on television, your government failed you. Those who you entrusted with protecting you failed you. And I failed you…

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I want to add my voice to the well- deserved chorus of congratulations for our colleague and friend from Vermont. Senator Patrick Leahy is the last remaining member of a historic class in the U.S. Senate, the class of 1974, better known as…

11 years ago, I introduced a bill called the DREAM Act. The DREAM Act is a piece of legislation that would give a select group of immigrant students who grew up in this country the chance to earn their citizenship if they were of good…

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I cannot imagine that we believe we can build a stronger America and cut education.

I want the strongest military in the world. We have it.

It just is incredible to me that we cannot find, within the Department of Defense and Pentagon, savings to help us reduce our deficit.

No other country on earth is engaged the way that they are.

I think it is very important that we communicate to our business community that there are tremendous opportunities in infrastructure and health care and agriculture.

The first thing we need to do is show up, and by that I mean our private sector needs to show up.

The goal is to dramatically increase American trade with Africa by coordinating our governmental efforts.

We will step forward and find a way to offset that advantage with a loan package, as we did for Pakistan Rail.

China has arrived. They have a vision in Africa and they have a plan.

I also ask unanimous consent that if I go over the allotted time in morning business for the majority, that I and Senator Murray be given an additional period of time and a like amount of time be offered to the Republican side. The ACTING…