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WASHINGTON, June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), who was Facebook bombed by over 3,000 young activists in recent days, announced this morning that his committee would not take up Senate-passed legislation to collect taxes on Internet sales. Goodlatte's statement effectively kills the bill, deceptively labeled the "Marketplace Fairness Act."

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organized the Facebook bomb, encouraging its grassroots army to leave comments on Goodlatte's Facebook page. Over 3,000 public comments were posted in the first few hours alone, as .

Generation Opportunity President Evan Feinberg,one of the first Millennials to run for Congress, issued the following statement:

"Today was a good day for young people. My generation sent a loud and clear message to Washington that we will oppose efforts to tax or regulate the Internet. The Internet tax would have disproportionately harmed my generation, as we do a greater share of our shopping online than older generations."

Millennials already have it tough, facing the . Efforts to regulate the Internet, such as the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) a few years ago, tend to inspire lots of grassroots activism from this dynamic, free-thinking generation.

Generation Opportunity is a national, non-partisan organization advocating for economic opportunity for young people through less government and more freedom.

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