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. 2609), S4562 [16JY]

Articles and editorials

Congress Poised To Slam States on Internet Access Charges, H6233 [15JY]

It’s Time To Level the Playing Field for Main Street Businesses, S2712 [6MY]

Bills and resolutions

Agriculture: authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products in final package form for human consumption between States that allow the sale of such products (see H.R. 4307), H2695 [26MR]

——— prohibit Federal interference in interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products in final package form for human consumption between States that allow the sale of such products (see H.R. 4308), H2695 [26MR]

Business and industry: empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes (see S. 2609), S4502 [15JY]

Crime: prohibit trespassing on critical infrastructure used in or affecting interstate commerce to commit a criminal offense (see S. 2934), S6022 [17NO]

Dept. of Transportation: create National Hiring Standard for Motor Carriers to enhance interstate commerce (see H.R. 4727), H4828 [22MY]

Gambling: restore long-standing U.S. policy that the Federal Wire Act prohibits all forms of Internet gambling (see S. 2159), S1775 [26MR] (see H.R. 4301), H2694 [26MR]

Health Care Compact: grant congressional consent (see H.J. Res. 110), H1770 [11FE]

Internet Tax Freedom Act: extend (see S. 2735), S5217 [31JY]

Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act: clarify applicability to condominiums (see S. 2101), S1416 [10MR]

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: provide greater flexibility in offering health insurance coverage across State lines (see S. 2174), S1818 [27MR]

Privacy: require notification when personally identifying information is disclosed by a Government agency (see H.R. 5202), H6814 [24JY]

Safety: ensure certain safety measures are utilized in the interest of public health security relative to labeling and transporting of human tissue specimens or collection of specimens into interstate commerce (see H.R. 5318), H7181 [31JY]

States: ensure methods of collecting taxes and fees by private citizens on behalf of States are fair and effective and do not discriminate against interstate commerce (see H.R. 5252), H7039 [29JY]

Transportation: prohibit transportation of horses in vehicles containing 2 or more levels stacked on top of one another (see H.R. 4440), H3143 [9AP]

Letters

Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act: Robert S. McIntyre, Citizens for Tax Justice (organization), H6232 [15JY]

——— several State and local government associations, H6232 [15JY]

Lists

Effects of H.R. 3086, Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act, on Texas, H6232 [15JY]

Organizations opposing H.R. 3086, Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act, H6234 [15JY]

Motions

Business and industry: empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes (S. 2609), S5885 [12NO]

Remarks in House

Animals: prohibit the sale or transport of equines or equine parts in interstate or foreign commerce for human consumption (H.R. 1094), E629 [30AP]

Business and industry: empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes (H.R. 684), H6229, H6230, H6234 [15JY]

——— empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes (S. 2609), H6313 [16JY]

Dept. of Transportation: modify minimum levels of financial responsibility for the transportation of property (H.R. 2730), H5174 [9JN]

——— prohibit funding to implement regulations that increase minimum levels of financial responsibility for the transportation of passengers or property, H5174, H5175 [9JN]

Health: 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), H138 [10JA], H2006, H2007 [27FE], H3384 [1MY]

Internet Tax Freedom Act: extend, H6313 [16JY]

Taxation: grandfather existing local collection fees under a permanent moratorium on Internet access taxation and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce, H6231, H6232 [15JY]

——— make permanent the moratorium on Internet access taxation and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce (H.R. 3086), H6140 [14JY], H6227, H6228–H6234 [15JY], H6355 [17JY], E1170 [16JY]

Remarks in Senate

Business and industry: empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes (S. 2609), S4511 [15JY], S4513 [16JY], S4599–S4601 [17JY], S5184 [31JY]

——— empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes (S. 2609), motion to proceed, S5885 [12NO]

——— empower States to require online retailers to collect and remit State sales and use taxes (S. 743), S2707–S2712 [6MY], S6126–S6130 [19NO]

Crime: prohibit and deter theft of metal, S2891 [12MY]

——— prohibit and deter theft of metal (S. 394), S3224–S3226 [21MY]

——— prohibit and deter theft of metal (S. 394), unanimous-consent request, S3224 [21MY]

Internet Tax Freedom Act: extend (S. 2735), S5184, S5185 [31JY], S6830, S6831 [15DE]

——— extend (S. 2735), unanimous-consent request, S5183, S5184 [31JY]

Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act: clarify applicability to condominiums (H.R. 2600), S5862 [18SE]

Taxation: make permanent the moratorium on Internet access taxation and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce, S4872 [24JY]

——— make permanent the moratorium on Internet access taxation and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce (H.R. 3086), S5182, S5184, S5185, S5194 [31JY]

——— make permanent the moratorium on Internet access taxation and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce (H.R. 3086), unanimous-consent request, S5183 [31JY]

——— make permanent the moratorium on Internet access taxation and multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce (S. 1431), S3250 [22MY]

Reports filed

Captive Primate Safety Act: Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senate) (S. 1463) (S. Rept. 113–308), S6626 [11DE]

Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 3086) (H. Rept. 113–510), H5826 [3JY]

Statements

Marketplace Fairness Act: Several Conservative Individuals and Governors, S6128 [19NO]

Texts of

H.R. 3086, Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act, H6228 [15JY]