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Dana Rohrabacher: no. I would say the efforts of the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Coble] have not in any way met my concerns and, in…

On the recordApril 17, 1997
no. I would say the efforts of the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Coble] have not in any way met my concerns and, in fact, have raised more concerns the more I look into the legislation. In fact, if the gentleman will notice from the universities that are in his district, none of them, none of them support H.R. 400. Had the gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. Coble] actually gone and moved forward, trying to take those concerns that we all had last year into consideration, they would be here. Instead, the central issue, and the central issue which remains, as everyone can see, is whether or not our information that we have developed during a research and development process, so important to our colleges and universities, whether or not that information is going to be forcibly published so that everyone else in the world will be able to steal it.
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California

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Addressing concerns about H.R. 400 and its implications for research and development information.

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