Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, in the 105th Congress, we passed a piece of legislation that led to this day. The purport of that Internet Tax Freedom legislation of that Congress denoted that a study would have to be performed in order to determine the future of our new world of Internet. One of the strongest recommendations made by the commission, the report to Congress being embodied in this beautiful blue book which I now place before the Chair, one of the strongest commendations there and recommendations was for the extension of the moratorium that the first bill, the one to which I just alluded, included and which does not expire now until October 1, 2001. The extension of the moratorium then is the core of the bill that is before us. It calls for a 5-year extension of the current moratorium. Why? Because that is what the commission recommended. Why did they recommend it? Because they were split on what different facets of the Internet world are going to carry with respect to access charges and all the other complexities having to do with Internet interstate commerce. So the best of all worlds is to give the Congress and industry and business and telecommunications, to give them all time to sort this out. Mr. Chairman, one thing that should be said to clear up things in anticipation of the debate that is to follow, this does not impact sales taxes as they now exist across the Nation.”