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North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. Together they would lose "several hundred million dollars annually" if they were no longer allowed to collect the taxes, CBO said.
• Several House Democrats spoke against the bill, but they allowed it to pass on a voice vote, which means members did not record whether they were in favor or against the bill.
• Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, complained that cities and states that already tax access to the Internet would lose much-needed revenue under the bill.
• "This federal prohibition on state taxing authority is contrary to federalism and the sovereign authority of states to structure and manage their own fiscal systems," said a statement by the National Governors Association.
• The bill now goes to the Senate, where it has support from a key Democratic senator.
• "The Internet Tax Freedom Act enabled the growth of a flourishing digital economy and hundreds of thousands of new, good-paying jobs," said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. "In my view, when you have something that works, that has stood the test of time, you ought to make it permanent."
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