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 gentleman from Virginia pointed out, that nothing in the motion to recommit, nothing in the amendments that we have…

I share the goals of the sponsors of this legislation. The fundamental problem is simple: There are, according to the Congressional Budget Office, 3 million people in America who do not get over the air free television and who do not get…

the New York Times has editoralized against any minimum wage at all. Their editorial was headlined: The Right Minimum Wage: $0.00 Let me quote from that editorial: Raise the legal minimum price of labor above the productivity of the least…

we are all in favor of eliminating the marriage penalty is what I understand from listening to the debate. The only objection that some colleagues raise is that this is not the right time to do it. It is too soon. We have only been trying…

The passage of this rule, which, as by now it is abundantly clear has won bipartisan support, will permit us to debate the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act, which will reaffirm America's long-standing Taiwan policy, in place since President…

I think all of us here in this chamber and, in fact, anyone in the world with a television set watched in awe and horror and ultimately relief as 6 year-old boy whose faint cries were heard beneath the rubble was extracted alive after…

Mr. Speaker, last January the Select Committee reached the unanimous and bipartisan conclusion that despite repeated Peoples Republic of China thefts of sophisticated U.S. nuclear weapons technology, security at our national weapons…

the President is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States. In that capacity he has the power to pardon convicted criminals. I know this from firsthand experience because I worked in the White House counsel's office which, for…

the average middle-class American family earning the median income around $39,000 a year or so pays over 40 percent of its gross income in taxes. Meanwhile, Washington is taking the highest share of our whole economy in taxes in over two…

Yes, and the reason we hope that this is a belt-and-suspenders operation, that this is surplusage, but perhaps not because States and localities have been very aggressive about taxation and regulation of the Internet. We want to make sure…

Yes, I think that that is correct. In addition, when combined with the preceding section, we make it clear that the goods that we are talking about letting States regulate and tax are alcoholic beverages and those things covered by the…

Yes, the language in section 1 is now written as section 3(b) on Line 17 of the amendment, as reported, states that no State may enforce under this act a law regulating the importation or transportation of any intoxicating liquor and with…

Yes, the purpose of the Internet Tax Freedom Act was to prevent new taxes on the Internet and discriminatory taxes that prayed upon the Internet.

Yes. The State law itself is authorized, to the extent it is authorized, by the 21st amendment to the Constitution. And because the United States Supreme Court has interpreted the 21st amendment to mean that it does not empower States to…

This amendment does not cover many of the important topics of our recommendations. Some of the debate here has focused on export controls on computers. There is nothing about export controls on computers in this amendment. It is also…

I am delighted to be here in support of abolishing the practice of baseline budgeting, which is the accounting gimmick by which for so many years Congress has called a spending increase a cut. This really has gone on just last year. Just…