Political Quotes

“Today, there are 100 million U.S. adults using the Internet. There are seven new Internet users every second. Think about that, seven new Internet users every second, more millions of families in America. Of course, school kids at home use the Internet as a way of doing their homework, accessing the Library of Congress. Today, we are responding to a pretty important question and that question is, do we want the information superhighway to be a toll way or a freeway. I believe, of course, that we want it to be a freeway. Today we are voting to remove one of those toll booths on the information superhighway by voting to repeal the telephone excise tax. Mr. Speaker, when we think about and look at who has Internet access at home, the higher their income, the more likely they have it. Families with incomes of $75,000 or more are 20 times more likely to have Internet access. If we ask those with low or moderate means why they do not have Internet access, they tell us it is because of the cost, that the cost is the barrier which denies their children the opportunity to use the Internet for school work. Today, we are eliminating one of those barriers.”