Byron Dorgan: “The bill we are going to be considering in the Senate is a piece of legislation that came out of the Commerce Committee.…”

“The bill we are going to be considering in the Senate is a piece of legislation that came out of the Commerce Committee. When it came out of the Commerce Committee, it had one area that was not resolved. We understood when we voted it out it was not resolved. It could have some very significant ramifications on State and local revenue base and other issues. We decided to try to resolve it on the way to the floor. It is not yet resolved. As a result, it will require substantial work-- amendments, debate, some compromise here and there--to see if we cannot get a piece of legislation that does what all of us want it to do; that is, to have a moratorium on the taxation of access to the Internet but done in a way with respect to definitions that is not going to have loopholes big enough to drive trucks through.”