Political Quotes

“yesterday I came to the floor to oppose the cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act. I, of course, would like to, I think properly, name it the Internet Tax Collection Act because that is what it is. I strongly oppose this bill which has very serious flaws to it and very serious ramifications for not only businesses in my State, online businesses where we have seen great growth, but also online businesses across this Nation. I strongly disagree with the decision to fast-track this bill, to skip the regular markup process of the Finance Committee. Both the chairman of the Finance Committee, Senator Baucus, and the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, Senator Hatch, had opposed going to this bill without the committee doing its work. Why? There are a number of concerns that have been raised about this bill by Members on both sides of the aisle. At a very minimum, we believe these concerns warrant a thorough vetting through the regular order. That is why I, along with Senators Wyden, Tester, Shaheen, Rubio, Lee, and Cruz wrote a letter to the majority leader expressing these concerns, asking again for regular order for this bill. But here we are. Cloture was invoked and I suspect the supporters of this bill certainly do not want to go through the markup process so here we are again without regular order. This bill is wrong for a great area of growth for our country, which is online businesses.…”