Dana Rohrabacher: “I am here tonight to discuss a bill that will be coming to this body next week or the week thereafter. A bill that will…”

“I am here tonight to discuss a bill that will be coming to this body next week or the week thereafter. A bill that will dramatically--dramatically--change the patent laws of this country. Mr. Speaker, it is a bill that I believe is part of an insidious attack on the well-being of the American people. They will not even realize how horrible it is and the impact that it will have on their way of life until many years after. Only when it has long since been passed will the American people wonder what it was that hit them, why their standard of living is going down, why America is no longer able to compete. Mr. Speaker, the American people are used to being the leaders on this planet. We have been, and this has been called the American Century. But let us never forget that America used to be the most underdeveloped country in the world. We were a desolate frontier, and now the American people have turned a desolate frontier into a house of freedom and opportunity in which the common man in the United States of America lives a decent life and knows that his children have an opportunity to improve their well-being as well through a system that encourages innovation. Yet there are those who seek to change some of the fundamental underpinnings of American prosperity, and at times they are not always up front with their goals.”