Owens to testify in Congress against proposed national system Despite the state budget crisis, Gov. Bill Owens will testify Wednesday in Congress against a bill that would let states collect billions in new Internet sales taxes. The legislation, introduced last week by Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., would allow states to implement a unified taxation system for collecting taxes on sales by Internet, phone or catalog. Owens, who will testify before the Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, has expressed his opposition to Internet taxes for years. But the pressure to impose them has built nationally...