Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, there are a number of things that I think we want to settle for the record here today. First of all, the protecting of privacy is important, but let's understand, for the first 230 years or 220 years of our existence, we didn't have an internet. We printed documents. Only the ability to digitally copy somebody's copyrighted material and then put it out on the internet created this situation. The courts have tried to grapple with the internet, but they failed in this case. Let me give you a good example. If you were to open those books or the online version of them, you would see diagrams. I am going to tell you, Mr. Speaker, I have gone through a few lawbooks in my time. I have never seen a diagram. A diagram is more than a law. A diagram or a picture or details of how to or multiple alternatives of how one can safely do something, all of those things are, in fact, not within the law. {time} 1745 As a matter of fact, the calculation, the formulas on which you can calculate different uses, how much, what size wire to use for a certain amount of amps over a certain distance, all of those things are teaching. These teaching books have been around now for most of our time. In fact, these organizations have books that they sell in vast amounts. It is only those books that basically continue to give them revenue.…”