III 112th CONGRESS 1st Session S. RES. 309 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 2, 2011 Mr. Wyden (for himself, Ms. Ayotte, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Begich, Mr. Merkley, and Mr. Heller) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Finance RESOLUTION Supporting the preservation of Internet entrepreneurs and small businesses.

Whereas the United States enjoys a strong Internet retail market, which, for the past decade, has provided consumers in the United States with the opportunity to purchase quality products and services at competitive prices; Whereas the free Internet marketplace has enabled a large number of small retailers and entrepreneurs across the Nation to establish and strengthen businesses on various e-commerce platforms and therefore protect and create jobs, increase consumer choice, create competition in the retail industry, and provide quality goods and services at reasonable and often discounted prices; Whereas any Federal legislation that would upset the free and fair Internet marketplace and allow State governments to impose new, onerous and burdensome sales tax-collecting schemes on out-of-State, Internet-enabled small businesses would adversely impact hundreds of thousands of jobs, reduce consumer choice, and impede the growth and development of interstate commerce; and Whereas at a time when national unemployment numbers are high and businesses across the country are struggling to keep their doors open, the Federal Government should promote pro-growth and pro-business policies instead of enacting legislation that extracts additional taxes from our Nation’s Internet-enabled businesses: Now, therefore, be it

That it is the sense of the Senate that Congress should not enact any legislation that would grant State governments the authority to impose any new burdensome or unfair tax collecting requirements on small Internet businesses and entrepreneurs, which would ultimately hurt the economy of, and consumers in, the United States.