Political Quotes

“Let us not miss the opportunity to keep these access charges, these regressive charges. We talk about the digital divide. This is the kind of thing that keeps a lower-income person off of the Internet, these kind of taxes on access to the Internet. That is what this is about. It is not about the sales tax. That is to be saved for another day, and we are going to take that up and hold hearings on it in the Committee on the Judiciary soon. This is about another issue that we ought to join together and pass and send to the American people a message that we want them all on the Internet, we want them all availing themselves of these new opportunities in the Information Age and no one should be left out because of discriminatory taxes, because of multiplicitous taxes or because of taxes on access to the Internet. I urge my colleagues to reject the motion to recommit and join with me in supporting final passage of this legislation.”