Barney Frank: “I did want to say that the ranking member of the full Committee on the Judiciary, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr.…”

“I did want to say that the ranking member of the full Committee on the Judiciary, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers), is in Michigan today because it is primary day in Michigan, and only that kept him from being here. The gentleman has been for a long time now one of the staunchest advocates of intellectual property rights. He is a man who has a great feel for American culture, and fully understands the role of intellectual property correctly understood in fostering our cultural traditions. So I did want to express the strong support of the gentleman from Michigan and note that his leadership in this was very, very important, and to explain his absence as being due entirely to the fact that he had to be in Michigan for his primary.”