Maria Cantwell actually said...

"I think States like Washington, Florida, and Texas deserve certainty on whether they get to deduct their sales tax from their Federal income tax?"

"The fact that these States basically watch other States get a deduction that is about $236 billion on the tax rolls as far as deduction, and we are talking about $16 billion here, and we cannot get ce..."

"this is about tax fairness and certainty."

"We just can't allow Washington State to be the repository for 90 percent of the Nation's high-level waste and then think we've done our job."