the amount of stability that you gave to the housing market, particularly for the lower income and middle income and sustainability deserves four stars, or five stars, not this.

this isn't a hearing. This is a sham, and not only is it a sham, it is a shameful sham of deceit.

Through executive actions, President Obama has already worked with the Patent Office to improve the quality of patents by tightening functional claiming.

let's cut this out and let's move this country forward.

Now, there's no doubt that there is abusive behavior occurring in patent litigation and it's causing harm to large and small businesses alike.

I think, in some way, wouldn't you agree that this bill itself is in--and Mr. Armitage, I think, sort of alluded to this--this bill is changing procedural provisions in a specialized way for patents.

So would you be on record right now in saying that the President is negligent in his responsibilities?

let's at least get to the point here where I believe that with the other things going on in our country, with the other things with our court system--and I am an attorney as well, and access to justice is an issue--then let's at least be…

wouldn't that be negligence, or asleep at the wheel?

there's many things in this bill that are--that I believe can be workable and are workable and I support.

There is no question that the right to patent, the right to exclude is given inventors by the Constitution.

I guess we danced around it long enough. I am bringing it out.

Honorable men and women of the Senate, you can prove them right today.

These laws empowered his prejudiced beliefs and subsequent rage over my son’s own life, his liberty and pursuit of happiness.

I thank the gentleman from Florida for yielding. We can talk about Bill Young all night, a man who came from nothing and grew to be head and shoulders above, champion for America's military. But I think the thing that struck everybody who…

Even the Wild West had more stringent laws governing the taking of life than we have now.

Mr. Speaker, I rise to support the rule and the underlying bill, H.R. 3080. This bill provides commonsense reforms to the construction of water infrastructure projects, which will help facilitate commerce and get this country back to work…

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in full support of the legislation before us this evening to rename the Bay Pines Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Florida the C.W. Bill Young Department of Veterans Affairs…