ms. lofgren: mr. speaker, i have introduced the wireless tax fairness act in three successive congresses and i'm grat if i had fide it is being considered by the full house today. expanding broadband access is critical to the economic future of our country. as it is in the broadband plan, the u.s. must lead and take all appropriate steps to ensure that americans have access to modern, high performance broadband and the benefits it enables. i introduced the cell tax fairness act because discriminatory taxes on wireless services are not consistent. cell phone bills tax at a far higher rate than other goods and services and many jurisdictions, the taxation of wireless approaches or even exceeds sin taxes like alcohol and cigarettes. before he was the president's chief economic -- economist, there was a study finding dead weight losses in society up to $5 for every $1. these taxes fall particularly hard on working class and lower-income americans who are most likely to rely on their cell phone for all com

ms. lofgren for their work in helping to bring this bill forward. at this time i'd also -- i'd ask unanimous consent -- i'll withdraw that for a second. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from tennessee. mr. cohen: thank you. i also rise in support of this bipartisan proposal that provides two small technical fixes to our country's immigration laws. i take the balance of the time that i have allotted to me to make this statement. the bill removes the so-called per country limits from applying to employment-based green cards. current immigration law provides 140,000 green cards annually to employ-based immigrants. they do not permit 7% of the 140,000 vees rays. because of this per country limit a country like india with a population of 1.2 billion is limited to the same number of visas to a country like iceland with the population of 300,000 and a lot of ice. this makes no sense. and has resulted in a decades' long backlog from nationals of india and china and makes