Should the Congress, should specifically the Commerce Committee be considering other approaches to make sure that folks get their intellectual property protected both domestically and abroad?

Thank you for having this hearing. It has been great.

We don't want two Americas. We don't want urban to have all the latest and greatest and high-tech stuff, and then rural just be left behind.

It does seem to me that given the ubiquity of the Internet, as you said, it just becomes harder and harder and harder for folks who own that intellectual property to enforce that.

This doesn't move the needle that much. We need to do overall tax reform.

Well, you know, that happens up here all the time. And I just decided I don't want to play that game anymore. I think people in Arkansas are sick and tired of the partisan games up here. It didn't have the votes to pass the Senate. It was…

I think people in Arkansas are sick and tired of the partisan games up here. It didn't have the votes to pass the Senate. It was never going to be brought up in the House.

You know, I know people say that. I wouldn't say that that's particularly fair. I mean, that's -- that's not -- that was not my motivation. I wasn't trying to position myself here at Arkansas. By the way, I have voted for increasing taxes…

I have no mental reservation about that. But trying to do it right now in this circumstances didn't make sense to me.

We have one claim, apparently, that's 2 years old, that they haven't gotten a response from you guys yet.

That seems inconsistent with the statute, because what they're left with is, they're left with traveling farther than the 20 miles that's in the statute to get to an FSA office.