Rod Blum: “I urge adoption of the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time”

To me, it is almost like legalized extortion, in that you can get a letter--and we have, our company has--get a letter that says, you know: You are violating this innocuous patent we have never heard of because you--I will use an extreme…

Get off my back with excessive regulations so I am not spending time and money on that.

I would like to make the gentleman from Virginia aware that I have no further speakers and I am prepared to close. I enjoy my colleague from Virginia's rather dry sense of wit and humor. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

I am a career business guy, not a career politician. I look at the VA, you know, our veterans, our national treasures.