INTERSTATE COMMERCE see also Cargo Transportation

Amendments

Business and industry: empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes (S. 743), S2903 [23AP], S2926, S2928, S2971, S2972, S2973, S2974, S2975, S2977, S2978 [24AP], S3051, S3052, S3053, S3055, S3056, S3057, S3058 [25AP]

Articles and editorials

Congress Must Level Playing Field on Internet Sales Taxes, S3080 [6MY]

Erick Erickson Is Wrong. . . and Here’s Why, S2100 [21MR]

Fairness on Sales Taxes, S3080 [6MY]

Tax Internet Sales, Stimulate Growth, S2821 [22AP]

There’s a Reason This Is Called the Marketplace Fairness Act, S3080 [6MY]

What’s Fair for Business, S3081 [6MY]

Bills and resolutions

Animals: prohibit the sale or transport of equines or equine parts in interstate or foreign commerce for human consumption (see H.R. 1094), H1356 [12MR]

Business and industry: empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes (see S. 336), S772 [14FE] (see S. 743), S2684 [16AP] (see H.R. 684), H544 [14FE]

——— prevent undue disruption of interstate commerce by limiting civil actions against persons whose only role with regard to a product is as a lawful seller of the product (see H.R. 2746), H4825 [19JY]

Crime: ensure prisoners do not profit from their violent acts through the sale of ‘‘murderabilia’’ by restricting mailing and delivery privileges of prisoners for commercial purposes (see S. 1549), S6886 [24SE]

——— prohibit and deter theft of metal (see S. 394), S943 [27FE] (see H.R. 867), H701 [27FE]

Dept. of Transportation: modify minimum levels of financial responsibility for the transportation of property (see H.R. 2730), H4724 [18JY]

Drugs: prohibit the manufacture, marketing, sale, or shipment of products designed to assist in defrauding a drug test (see H.R. 1930), H2568 [9MY]

FDA: prohibit wholesalers from purchasing prescription drugs from pharmacies and enhance information and transparency of drug wholesalers engaged in interstate commerce (see H.R. 1958), H2602 [14MY]

Firearms: implement a system of licensing for purchasers of certain firearms and a record of sale system for those firearms (see H.R. 34), H28 [3JA]

——— more comprehensively address the interstate transportation of firearms or ammunition (see H.R. 1290), H1718 [20MR]

——— update certain procedures applicable to commerce in firearms and remove certain Federal restrictions on interstate firearms transactions (see H.R. 3335), H6768 [23OC]

Fish and fishing: prevent escapement of genetically altered salmon (see S. 246), S519 [7FE] (see H.R. 1667), H2245 [23AP]

Gambling: regulate Internet gambling and provide consumer protections (see H.R. 2282), H3250 [6JN]

Health: make health care expenses tax deductible, reform health savings accounts, improve Medicare flexibility, reform emergency treatment practices, and allow interstate purchase of insurance (see H.R. 2900), H5341 [1AU]

——— national policy to provide health care and reform insurance procedures (see H.R. 3165), H5802 [20SE]

Insurance: provide for cooperative governing of individual health insurance coverage offered in interstate commerce (see H.R. 762), H594 [15FE]

Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act: clarify applicability to condominiums (see H.R. 2600), H4174 [28JN]

Sports: improve integrity and safety of interstate horseracing (see S. 973), S3569 [16MY] (see H.R. 2012), H2716 [16MY]

Taxation: make permanent the moratorium on Internet access taxation and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce (see S. 31), S42 [22JA] (see S. 1431), S6206 [1AU] (see H.R. 434), H300 [29JA] (see H.R. 3086), H5546 [12SE]

——— reduce tobacco smuggling (see H.R. 2990), H5396 [2AU]

——— regulate and tax Internet gambling (see H.R. 3491), H7109 [14NO]

——— regulate certain State taxation of interstate commerce (see H.R. 2992), H5396 [2AU]

Transportation: prohibit transportation of horses in vehicles containing 2 or more levels stacked on top of one another (see S. 1459), S6207 [1AU]

Wildlife: prohibit import, export, transportation, sale, receipt, acquisition, or purchase in interstate or foreign commerce of any live animal of any prohibited wildlife species (see S. 1463), S6207 [1AU] (see H.R. 2856), H5173 [30JY]

Cloture motions

Business and industry: empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes (S. 743), S2927 [24AP], S3013 [25AP]

——— empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes (S. 743), motion to proceed, S2785 [18AP], S2833 [22AP]

Comments

Conservatives support proposal to empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes, S2098 [21MR]

E-mails 

Marketplace Fairness Act: Al Cardenas, American Conservative Union, S3076 [6MY]

Letters

Clarify Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act applicability to condominiums: Representatives Carolyn B. Maloney and Nadler, H5823 [25SE]

Empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes: David French, National Retail Federation, S2100 [21MR]

——— several organizations, S2099 [21MR]

Marketplace Fairness Act: Christine Gregoire and Bill Haslam, Governor of Tennessee, National Governors Association, S2951 [24AP]

——— Grover G. Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform (organization), S3070 [6MY]

——— Lance Trebesch, S2828 [22AP]

——— Senators Enzi and Alexander, S3071 [6MY]

——— several Senators, S2950 [24AP]

——— Tom Corbett, Governor of Pennsylvania, and Steven L. Beshear, Governor of Kentucky, National Governors Association, S2951 [24AP]

Lists

Governors and former governors who support S. 743, Marketplace Fairness Act, S2952 [24AP]

Minnesota supporters of proposal to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes, S2105 [21MR]

Organizations supporting S. 743, Marketplace Fairness Act, S2873 [23AP]

Statements supporting S. 743, Marketplace Fairness Act, S2833 [22AP]

Memorandums

Empower States To Require Online Retailers To Collect and Remit State Sales and Use Taxes: Steven Maguire, Jeanne Grimmett, and Erika K. Lunder, Congressional Research Service, S2103 [21MR]

Motions

Business and industry: empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes (S. 743), S2785 [18AP]

Remarks in House

Agriculture: prohibit from enacting laws that place restrictions on means of production for agricultural goods sold within its borders but produced in other States, E1002 [28JN]

Business and industry: empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes (H.R. 684), H2446 [7MY], H2538 [9MY], H2646–H2649 [15MY], H2832 [21MY]

Corps of Engineers: Great Lakes Navigational System dredging and maintenance funding, H4245 [9JY]

Crime: prevent video depictions of animal cruelty, E1002 [28JN]

FDA: prohibit wholesalers from purchasing prescription drugs from pharmacies and enhance information and transparency of drug wholesalers engaged in interstate commerce, E784 [4JN]

Gambling: regulate Internet gambling and provide consumer protections (H.R. 2282), E1669 [14NO]

Health: make health care expenses tax deductible, reform health savings accounts, improve Medicare flexibility, reform emergency treatment practices, and allow interstate purchase of insurance, H2675 [16MY]

——— make health care expenses tax deductible, reform health savings accounts, improve Medicare flexibility, reform emergency treatment practices, and allow interstate purchase of insurance (H.R. 2900), H5269 [1AU], H6986 [12NO], H7198 [19NO]

Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act: clarify applicability to condominiums (H.R. 2600), H5821–H5823 [25SE], E1004 [28JN]

Taxation: regulate and tax Internet gambling (H.R. 3491), E1669 [14NO]

Tobacco products: deter smuggling and ensure collection of all tobacco taxes, H965 [5MR]

Remarks in Senate

Business and industry: empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes, S2093–S2106, S2108 [21MR], S2248, S2273–S2278 [22MR]

——— empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes (S. 743), S2696 [16AP], S2697 [17AP], S2926–S2931, S2937–S2953 [24AP], S2983, S2985–S2991, S2994–S3009, S3013, S3016–S3018 [25AP], S3070–S3084 [6MY], S3153–S3155 [7MY]

——— empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes (S. 743), motion to proceed, S2785 [18AP], S2820–S2825, S2827–S2834, S2836–S2838 [22AP], S2859–S2863, S2866, S2871–S2873, S2875–S2882, S2885, S2891–S2894 [23AP], S2909, S2918, S2919 [24AP]

——— enforcement authority of States to collect State sales and use taxes from remote sellers in foreign countries, S3007 [25AP]

——— exempt businesses with less than certain amount of online sales from requirement to collect and remit State sales and use taxes, S2878, S2881 [23AP], S8939 [18DE]

——— give businesses more time to comply with online sales tax regulations, S2986–S2991 [25AP]

——— implement a sunset for requiring online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes, conduct study on costs of compliance, and limit State audits of online retailers, S2999 [25AP]

——— include tribal governments in provisions to empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes, S3154 [7MY]

Crime: prohibit and deter theft of metal, S6585 [18SE]

——— prohibit and deter theft of metal (S. 394), S4449 [13JN]

Insurance: provide for cooperative governing of individual health insurance coverage offered in interstate commerce, S6745, S6750 [24SE]

Taxation: moratorium on Internet access taxation and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce, S3153, S3154 [7MY]

Reports filed

Metal Theft Prevention Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 394), S4521 [17JN]

Statements

Minnesota Proposal To Require Online Retailers To Collect and Remit Sales and Use Taxes: Alliance for Main Street Fairness, S2105 [21MR]

Tables

Marketplace Fairness Act timeline, S2949 [24AP]

Texts of

H.R. 2600, clarify Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act applicability to condominiums, H5822 [25SE]

S. 743, Marketplace Fairness Act, S3083 [6MY]

S. 1549, Stop the Sale of Murderabilia Act, S6891 [24SE]