So, what you are saying is that Congress has created an impediment to the right to repair.
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Darrell Edward Issa is an American politician and businessman currently serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 48th congressional district, a position he has held since January 3, 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party and previously served in Congress from 2001 to 2019, representing California's 49th congressional district. Throughout his political career, Issa has been known for his focus on free enterprise and has been involved in various legislative efforts related to business and economic issues.
I doubt very much they would have said, yes, that is pretty much what we want.
From a standpoint of intellectual property, where in God's green Earth, or the Constitution, are any of those designed to be rights that belong to the manufacturer rather than rights that belong to the owners of those two John Deere…
While I am proud to sponsor the SMART Act, a bill that will expand consumer choice for automobile collision repair parts, decrease costs for both drivers and insurers, and enhance competition in the automotive repair parts market, it is…
I have introduced a bill under discussion, the SMART Act, H.R. 1707, which would help solve the problems of limited access to parts.
I have an amendment at the desk; No. 61, oddly enough. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle F of title X, insert the following: SEC. 10__. REPORT AND…
I wish my colleague had stayed for a little longer because I would like to change his mind as to why I am doing it, what I am doing, and what the purpose would be. My office has been in pretty constant contact with many of the…
I wish that the gentleman would come with me. On Monday night, I will have more than two dozen of the family members for dinner after votes, and you are invited. My treat. The fact is, those unanswered questions are not because voluminous…
Let me tell a quick story. Some years ago, we subpoenaed information from the Department of Justice. The Attorney General himself, then Eric Holder, came before me both in committee and personally up to and including the moment in which he…
I am just going to move on because I think it is time to move on past January 6th.
I want to associate myself with the ranking member's statements. I have served, as long as I have served, with the gentleman from New York. Mr. Nadler has been a leader on this, and this is a bipartisan issue, one that each year we are…
Governor Newsom and his team didn't plan to fail, but so far they failed to plan.
I thank the Chair for holding this important hearing again and I yield back the balance of my time.
You didn't go to the public library, so to speak. You went and got this material and ingested it just as I ingested, for the most part, my college years.
Just because they are a bad student doesn't mean that the copyrighted material shouldn't be paid for, does it?
I thank the gentleman. I will welcome you to the Subcommittee, which has historically been extremely bipartisan.
I am in absolute agreement with artists on the panel here that this is an important issue and people should not be allowed to imitate another person through deepfakes or through imitation.
we can't pass intellectual property reform except on a completely bipartisan basis.
When I received my current district in redistricting, I was pleased that it was a border district, all along the Mexican border from the Tijuana area all the way through the rest of the county. It isn't a border area today. There is no…
A data search that suppresses anyone or steers anyone in a direction, by definition, denies equal relevance to data.





