Zoe Lofgren

It was really in 2005, I think, that the cost overruns were so outrageous that they really, they triggered the Nunn-McCurdy Program breach review.

It doesn't mean we have to be satisfied with where we are. I don't think anyone is.

I understand Mr. Rohrabacher's concern that while we grant entry to some 800 Chinese state-sponsored journalists, China allows entry to only 2 BBG journalists.

I think to respond to their oppression of the free press with the curtailment of the press strikes me as probably the wrong approach.

There can be no doubt that the Chinese government regularly imposes severe restrictions on the freedom of the press.

I think if we kick 99 percent of China's journalists out of this country, I don't think that is going to make the situation better, honestly.

I understand Mr. Rohrabacher's concern about the disparity, and I certainly do not question his motives in proposing this measure.

Isn't it just--wouldn't it solve our problem in the Internet world if we were just transparent to users and gave them enforceable choices?

the capacity to know everything about individuals because of technology that has been deployed, and yet individuals may not even be aware that their picture is being taken with facial recognition technology.

we need to have rules--individuals have to have the ability to enforce their understandings, either through the FTC or through private rights of action.

I personally do not consider Medicare and Social Security to be welfare.

I think that would be a worthy goal. This bill does not do that.

I would actually like to see something like the Cuban Adjustment Act extended to other victims of communism.

Something like a quarter of the patents in the United States come from the Silicon Valley.

I think there is a problem, and I think we are not going to solve it here today.

I think it is a good time for us to check in to learn the vision of each of them and to make sure that they are in accord with the vision that the Congress, on a bipartisan basis, has on behalf of the Nation.

Copyright is for the author first and the Nation second.

I would simply say that, of course, we all appreciate the work that the employees of the Library of Congress do every day on behalf not only of the Congress but of the American people.

Identity theft is a significant and growing problem in the United States.

ICE was perfectly willing to come and testify today. It was the Chairman who disinvited them.

The Chairman proposes that we mandate the use of E-Verify without otherwise reforming our immigration laws, but that will only make matters worse.

E-Verify is supported by 82 percent of the American people.

I think this oversight hearing is an important one.

the Federal Government has paid for this research and we have an interest and the taxpayers have an interest in getting that information out as swiftly as possible if there is no damage done.

I appreciate that you have held this hearing because although the Judiciary Committee with jurisdiction over copyright has looked at this, there is no way that we would ever have gotten into this discussion which is how to organize the…