Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, everyone recognizes that over the 10 previous years prior to this exact moment, there has been an explosion of use of wireless communications, mobile communications devices. These are seen in every hallway in Congress, in every shopping mall in the country, and every place where there are more than two people. One can sense that wireless communications has reached a new plateau. It is estimated that some 80 million such devices are in constant use every single day even as we proceed here on this bill. The problem has been one of a complex problem that local taxing authorities have not known how to proceed in levying the tax that they would by law, by their own ordinances, et cetera, be able to cast on such a wireless service. Where should it be? Where the wireless communications originate or where they fall into the receivers of the call itself, all the things in between that could account for the course that a wireless communication takes. So what to do? What has happened here in this particular case, Mr. Speaker, is an example that we ought to be looking to more than just at a glance in many of the issues that come before us.”