Spencer Cox: “There are only two points that need to be made so that we can vote on this motion to recommit. The first is, as the…”

“There are only two points that need to be made so that we can vote on this motion to recommit. The first is, as the gentleman from Virginia pointed out, that nothing in the motion to recommit, nothing in the amendments that we have adopted, nothing in the underlying legislation, and nothing in the Cox-Wyden moratorium that we are extending here has anything to do with sales taxes. The ban on multiple taxes, the ban on discriminatory taxes in the current moratorium is what we are talking about extending here. In my view, we ought not to have any taxes on Internet access because we are trying to deal with the digital divide, and that ban should be permanent. In addition, multiple taxes, taxes by two States on the same commerce, ought to be banned indefinitely. And, likewise, also discriminatory taxes that would target the Internet but not off-line commerce. That is all this legislation is about.”