Hal Rogers: “I want to state to the gentleman that, since 1994, we have increased the funding for this office by $250 million, $250…”

“I want to state to the gentleman that, since 1994, we have increased the funding for this office by $250 million, $250 million over the last 5 years we have increased them. In this current bill, we are increasing them by $34 million. Now that is not exorbitant, but we think that the PTO has to live within the same constraints that all the other agencies of the Government must live within. They are not exempt from the regular laws of discipline that the rest of the agencies of the Government must live by. I appreciate the fact that they are generating huge amounts of money in the fees they collect, but these are Government-authorized fees.”