Dana Rohrabacher: “It is fascinating that in H.R. 400, which we will vote on as an up-and-down vote at the end of this long debate and…”

“It is fascinating that in H.R. 400, which we will vote on as an up-and-down vote at the end of this long debate and after our amendments are through, that all of the Nobel Laureates that have been cited on the floor have been in favor of a substitute to H.R. 400 and have opposed H.R. 400; the research departments of our major universities and colleges are opposed to H.R. 400; every inventors' organization in the country is opposed to H.R. 400; small businesses throughout our country are opposed to H.R. 400. They do not want to give huge, multinational, and foreign corporations every secret that they have been developing with their research and their efforts over the years, even before patents are granted to those who have applied for patents. This would make vulnerable small businessmen. It would make vulnerable our inventors. It would cut into what America has had as our edge against every one of our foreign adversaries both in terms of national security and in terms of our prosperity. I am asking my colleagues to join me in voting no on H.R. 400 but supporting the amendment of the gentleman from California [Mr. Campbell] which would, hopefully, improve it one little bit.”