when they talk about the budget deal, are they talking about the renewal of section 8's? And does the gentleman really consider the renewal of section 8's new resources for housing?

The fact is that there has been no 602(b) allocation this year. The fact is that the gentleman from New York comes up here on the wholly inaccurate premise that this must come from HUD, VA, EPA or the unstated NASA, which he has implicitly…

Yes, we believe in this body that women with their children or fathers with their children should be there and there is some evidence that that is important, but if they are poor enough, then they lose that right to do it all the time, and…

when the Republican chairman of the committee gets up and his basic argument is ``The President made me do it,'' we understand the weakness of his substantive arguments. The gentleman even said we should be for this because this is the…

To give the gentleman from Iowa his due, he has an alternative argument, which is once there is a vote of Federal funds to a local government, then the unfunded mandate issue disappears. His argument is that because the local governments…

I am about to engage in an exercise which is clearly second best. The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee a couple of weeks ago decided that we were creating too many jobs too rapidly in America and, fearing that this would be…

reclaiming my time, this is very sneaky. Not only is the Commerce Department signing secret agreements, but they are then publicizing their secret agreements to throw people off the track of the fact that they had a secret agreement. I…

let me respond now. First of all, I want to congratulate my friend from California. I did not realize he had such good intelligence sources, because he has been waving around a secret agreement. My reaction was to wonder, if it was a…

Yes, I deny it, Mr. Chairman. I will tell the gentlewoman this, I have been working on this bill. I was originally a cosponsor of Mr. Rohrabacher's bill. We made some changes. I have met with people in biotech. I have met with people in…

reclaiming my time, what we finally should do is to give credit to the literary hand that runs us all. Clearly this was motivated by the purloined letter, where the way to hide it was to leave it out in public, because, apparently, the…

I think we are entitled to point out that this was not such a big secret and that notion I will stress for this reason. Sure there is reason to debate this. I have agreed with some of the points Mr. Rohrabacher made, and I have supported…

Mr. Chairman, the point is this. We are talking about a very, very limited circumstance. I think to some extent what we may be patenting-- and maybe you cannot patent this, maybe we would copyright it--examples of horrible and extremist…

I would also say I was a little bit surprised to hear my friend from California worried so much about the rights of people under trade secrets because I had previously in my conversations with him and in his amendment understood him to be…

If the question was, does publication take away your right to do trade secret, I would have to say I am surprised at the question, because any patent takes away your chance to use trade secret. Publication is not the operational problem…

That is also true once we have gotten a patent, Mr. Chairman. In other words, if there are people out there who are determined to use their superior resources and their access to lawyers to infringe on and chip away at and take the benefit…

We made another change in this. Under prior law, if two people both filed a similar patent, they were on equal terms before the law and had an equal burden in terms of proving who had invented first, not who filed first, which is not…

No, the universities are not supporting the committee bill, they are not supporting the bill of the gentleman from California. He is being unusually reticent. My friend from California is being unusually reticent in leaving his own bill…

The question was, if we are published, do we give up our ability to use trade secrets. My answer was, if that was the question, the answer is that any time we go for a patent, we give up the right to go trade secrets. I want to finish the…

that is the oddest invocation of the burden of proof I have heard. The burden of proof is somehow on those who would support one bill, but not on those who would support one equally important. The gentleman said the burden of proof is on…

I differ with the implicit imputation of great inarticulateness to the university sector. The gentleman from California says it is true they have said they do not support or oppose either bill. They do not oppose it. But the gentleman says…

reclaiming my time, let me be clear. The gentleman did not mean, and I apologize to the gentleman, I will not in the future confuse what he says with what he believes, if that is what I am supposed to interpret. It did seem to me like he…

it is interesting to have the advocate that says you need a two-thirds vote of the Congress to raise taxes say he wishes it could be done instead by Executive order, because understand, first of all, that changing the CPI the way the…

Mr. Speaker, we should note that today is the day when under the law of the country, the Republican majority should be giving us their budget. We have no budget. They do not want to present the budget, and what we have today is a…

the point I would make is this: My understanding is that the majority has pulled this bill because we voted for a States rights amendment. The gentlewoman from California offered an amendment to this bill in committee that said it would…

I do not think anyone on our side wants to denigrate the importance of the veterans bill or the Samoan development bill. My question is, why did we not do them yesterday? We are not objecting to doing those bills, but Monday and Tuesday…