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On the recordJune 22, 2011
Thank you, and I will be very brief. If the funds that are sequestered--first of all, it requires another act of Congress to appropriate those sequestered funds back to the Patent Office. If it was never the intention to divert those, then why change the bill?
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Adam Schiff
Democratic · California
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Jun 22, 2011

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