Spencer Cox

The dilution is moving from the House position of 20 years maximum sentence for shredding of documents and for obstruction of justice to 10 years.

As a conferee, I certainly would urge, and I believe it is the general intent of all of the conferees in the House to urge, as the House position in this conference when it comes to criminal changes, criminal law changes, to urge the…

Mr. Chairman, in fact, the purpose of this legislation is to make sure that we do not have runaway health care costs and that we have more people insured. The legislation states, and it is worth pointing out, because we have heard…

This resolution does nothing more, nothing less than it purports to do, which is to put before the Congress a report which we ought by rights to have seen on October 19, and I think that on that we should all agree.

Amendment offered by Mr. Cox: Page 54, after line 2, insert the following: Sec. 341. None of the funds in this Act shall be used for the planning, development, or construction of California State Route 710 freeway extension project through…

I came to Congress 12 years ago, having already spent 2 years working as a lawyer for President Reagan in the White House trying to overhaul our badly broken budget process. President Reagan in 1986 appointed a White House working group on…

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, 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, 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 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…