[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11865]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        INTERNET TAX FREEDOM ACT

  (Mr. CHAFFETZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHAFFETZ. Mr. Speaker, I wish to speak about the Internet Tax 
Freedom Act.
  Interstate commerce has blossomed with the wires and connectivity 
that the Internet has provided us for these last couple of decades, and 
since 1998, the Internet Tax Freedom Act has prohibited your Internet 
access bill from lighting up like a Christmas tree as it has on your 
telephone bill. It has aided those who want to access the Internet by 
allowing those costs to stay down, without burdensome taxes being added 
on.
  If ever there were an invention that is truly interstate commerce, it 
is the Internet. We could be standing side by side and could send each 
other a tweet or a post on Facebook or even an email, and it could go 
through a whole host of States on its way, in order to get to the 
person who is standing right next to you.
  Only two people have ever voted against the Internet Tax Freedom Act, 
which was originally enacted in 1998, and every 4 years, we have had to 
renew that. Now, Chairman Bob Goodlatte is bringing this up again, so 
as to make this permanent, to add certainty and to keep costs low.
  I urge the passage of the Internet Tax Freedom Act as we address it 
later this week.

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