Yet, the Gramm-Enzi bill would significantly interfere with his authority to prevent such U.S. sales.
Mr. Enzi cannot possibly force all the world's Internet businesses to collect local U.S. taxes.
It's true that many small brick-and-mortar retailers in states with sales taxes support the Enzi bill.
Enzi and Dorgan accept the principle that certain retailers should be exempt from the program.
The Enzi-Dorgan proposal stood no chance with taxophobic Republicans in control of the House.
The E-fairness Coalition, representing shopping mall operators and bricks-and-mortar retailers, is also backing the Enzi-Dorgan legislation.
Enzi delivered the Republican national radio address Saturday to harshly criticize Democratic health care proposals.
The committee's top Republican, Mike Enzi of Wyoming, said yesterday he would just hope for the best.
Michael Enzi and Edward Kennedy , would try to fix the FDA without creating a separate safety office.
Senator Enzi offered a similar proposal in a health insurance reform bill he sponsored in the last Congress.
The remarkable thing about the Enzi bill is just how unremarkable it is.
Mr. Enzi is proposing a fundamental change in the taxation of interstate commerce.
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Mr. Enzi's Marketplace Fairness Act discriminates against Internet-based businesses by imposing burdens that it does not apply to brick-and-mortar companies.
Mr. Enzi said the administration's move could undermine a fragile consensus, according to administration and Senate aides in the room.
"I do know about three people that comply with that, " Enzi said.
Mike Enzi of Wyoming, the top Republican on the Senate labor committee.
On February 22, these chairmen and Senator Kyl met with you and with Senators Phil Gramm and Michael Enzi to discuss these matters further.
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In her note to investors, Catherine Arnold of Credit Suisse speculates that Democrats in the house could favor "more draconian" measures than the Enzi-Kennedy bill.
Senator MIKE ENZI (Republican, Wyoming): It will definitely slow things down, and we'll just keep him in our prayers and hope for a speedy recovery.
It's sponsored by Senate Health Committee Chairman Mike Enzi of Wyoming.
Mike Enzi of Wyoming, a sponsor of the Marketplace Fairness Act, has brought the bill to the Senate floor as an amendment to the budget resolution.
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Backers of Senator Mike Enzi's Marketplace Fairness Act say that it will simply compel the collection of online sales taxes that are already owed by consumers.
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Still, big pharma is backing the Kennedy-Enzi plan, which would also give the FDA more power to change drug labels and force companies to conduct studies.
Enzi's bill on Association Health Plans hit the Senate floor in May, Snowe worked on a number of compromise amendments, including making more medical benefits mandatory, to address Democratic concerns.
Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, and Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican, are considering more direct legislation to force online retailers to collect sales taxes, people familiar with the matter said.
The Enzi plan would require a centralized tax collector for each state or for a group of states that would gather both state and local levies from the online merchants.
Not to worry, say supporters of the Enzi bill.
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However, U.S. Senators Mike Enzi (Republican--Wyoming) and Byron Dorgan (Democrat--North Dakota) are pushing legislation that would give the SSUTA the backing of federal law, turning a voluntary project into a mandatory one.
The bill, which the pair began drafting following Merck's decision to yank Vioxx in September 2004, is meant to "ensure that drug safety is not an afterthought, " according to a prepared statement from Enzi's office.
Senator MIKE ENZI (Republican, Wyoming): The bill before us will provide for small businesses to be able to join across state lines to negotiate against the insurance companies with enough power to make a difference.
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