Jay Rockefeller

We urge Congress to create a robust national system--one that protects patients today and provides the flexibility to ensure we can build upon it in the future.

S. 1832 would not enact new taxes.

It's the right thing to do.

Allowing states to collect sales tax on online purchases will not stop the growth of e-commerce.

This legislation is essential both for establishing a level playing field for America's retail employers and ensuring that states and territories have the legal authority they need to collect revenues that are already owed to them.

S. 1832 merely provides states the authority and ability to collect these existing uncollected taxes.

We need local retailers to make that happen.

Congress has clear constitutional authority to act to regulate interstate commerce of online and remote sales.

Both large and small businesses also support S. 1832 and urge Congress to act.

State and local governments support S. 1832 and urge Congress to act on this issue.

Now is the time to enact S. 1832.

I am pleased to join today with my colleagues, Senator Franken, Senator Lugar, Senator Collins, Senator Shaheen, Senator Wyden, Senator Blumenthal, and Senator Brown of Ohio, to introduce an important piece of bipartisan legislation, the…

It's an unfair and unequal system that forces me to compete on our current sales tax collection system, which favors an Internet seller over a local retailer.

We urge Congress to enact legislation like S. 971 this year.

My dear colleague, I would feel better if the Senator from Maine spoke before I did. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Whitehouse.) The Senator from Maine.

I wish all negotiations proceeded with such comity. For those of us who have lived long enough, we have seen, obviously, enormous transition. We are in a totally new age. Today, as we begin our debate, over 200 billion e-mails will be sent…

Shell pharmacies simply should not exist.

It is indefensible that we have cancer patients that have to wait to get chemotherapy.

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. It was a disaster in every sense of the word.

A constant American presence on the space station also presents a unique opportunity to inspire our children's interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics--the so-called STEM fields.

Artificial Medicare drug pricing caps have created this problem.

This is an unparalleled opportunity for these aspiring young scientists that I hope will encourage them and their peers to continue to pursue degrees and careers in science and engineering.

We are holding this hearing today because some, I would say, very unscrupulous people have figured out a way to make a quick buck at the expense of sick patients, hospitals, and, in the end, our entire health care system.

These drugs, in their shortage, make it very difficult and sometimes impossible for doctors and for hospitals and nurses and other health care professionals to do their job, which is to care for us when we're critically ill.

At its core, the space station is a laboratory and a classroom--a scientific and educational asset available not only to NASA, but to all Americans and the international community for research, discovery, and education.