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Chairman Goodlatte: The clock is ticking down on a key law that protects Internet freedom. On November 1, 2014, a temporary moratorium on state taxation of Internet access will expire.
In 1998, Congress temporarily banned state and local governments from newly taxing Internet access or placing multiple or discriminatory taxes on Internet commerce. With minor modifications, this ban was extended three times, with enormous bipartisan support. The most recent extension passed in 2007.
Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 3086, the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act (PITFA), by a voice vote. Thisbroadly bipartisan legislation permanently bans states from taxing Internet access or placing multiple or discriminatory taxes on e-commerce.
Washington, D.C. – The House Judiciary Committee today approved by voice vote the Satellite Television Access Reauthorization Act (H.R. 5036), a bipartisan bill authored by Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee Chairman Howard Coble (R-N.C.) to extend, for five years, the expiring provisions of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA) of 2010 which governs satellite companies’ ability to retransmit broadcast television.
Washington, D.C. — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee Chairman Howard Coble (R-N.C.) today introduced the Satellite Television Access Reauthorization Act of 2014 (H.R. 5036), to extend the expiring provisions of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA) of 2010 which governs satellite companies’ ability to retransmit broadcast television. The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to mark-up H.R. 5036 on Thursday, July 10, 2014.
Washington, D.C. — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) released the statement below following President Obama’s $3.7 billion emergency supplemental request to address the surge of children, teenagers, and families from Central America seeking to enter the U.S. illegally.
Harlingen, Texas — This week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) led a bipartisan trip to the Rio Grande Valley Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border to seek information about the sudden surge of children, teenagers, and families – largely from Central America – attempting to enter the U.S. illegally.
Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) released the statement below following President Obama’s speech in which he called for the enactment of the Senate immigration bill, announced that he will take more unilateral actions to dismantle our immigration laws this summer, and announced that he will send interior enforcement officers to the border to deal with the surge of kids, teenagers, and parents from Central America seeking to enter the U.S. illegally.
Washington, D.C. — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) today sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding that he appoint a Special Counsel to investigate the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of conservative groups.
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Supreme Court announced a landmark decision in support of religious freedom in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. The Court ruled 5-4 in favor of Hobby Lobby. The Court determined that the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) contraceptive mandate burdens the free exercise of religion and that the mandate applied to closely-held corporations violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Washington, D.C. —Next week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) will lead a bipartisan trip to the Rio Grande Valley Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday, July 2 and Thursday, July 3 to seek information about the sudden surge of children, teenagers, and families seeking to enter the U.S. illegally. Members of the House Judiciary Committee traveling to the border will tour federal facilities and meet with those witnessing this problem firsthand at the southern border, including law enforcement officials from U.S.