as I do on many Thursdays, I rise again today to share about the lives of the men from my State, the North Dakotans who died during the Vietnam war. I have been talking about the 189 men who didn't make it home, but that is not a complete…

we cannot simply just always put a monetary value and assume that we are going to achieve the intended result.

It has been interesting, because there has been a lot of rewriting of history, I think, today.

we have an obligation to constantly look back on a regulatory scheme and say, is this working? Is this right?

We have to start in a government-to-government respectful relationship.

Obviously, the United States has elected not to do a Value Added Tax, although typically in Europe, a Value Added Tax is the major revenue producer for most of the countries.

I think a lot of people think that is a gift that the United States Congress gave to the tribes, when in reality it is a restriction on the sovereign rights of tribes as outlined by the Cabazon case.

there will not be a small seller exemption.

the more international and the more national our businesses become, the more important it is to really level the playing field

if this case went to the Supreme Court again, he would vote the other way.

Do you not think one of the primary elements of taxation is that people who do exactly the same thing ought to share the exact same burdens?

Finally, Mr. President, I would just like to give a little update on what has been happening since we have basically allowed the charter of the Ex-Im Bank to expire. Just as we predicted, that unilateral disarmament in our trade financing…