Melvin Watt

I think it was wonderful that we bailed out the automobile industry. We wouldn't have a domestic industry if we had not done that, in my opinion.

These extraordinary benefits to companies and individuals alike also come with increased concerns about reliability, security and privacy.

The notion that we would invest all of this money in them and then send them back to a country that they had no connection to just seems to me to be absolute folly.

I want to publicly applaud the Administration and you, Madam Secretary, for this change in policy.

If anybody deserves to be treated as if they were not criminals it is kids who were brought here at 1 month, 2 years.

I think it was the least successful, biggest abomination of any program that I have observed in our local communities.

Development of a credible medium-term plan for controlling deficits should be a high priority.

You can't both spend and keep taxes low without increasing deficits.

U.S. fiscal policies are on an unsustainable path.

I believe the Dodd-Frank bill reflects the goals of both competition policy and stabilizing our financial institutions.

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform bill... was the culmination of years of efforts to rein in predatory lending.

Not only does not negotiating about compulsory licenses have an adverse impact on businesses, but not negotiating about labor conditions and employment conditions in those countries have an adverse impact on our workers.

I thank the ranking member for yielding time. I walked in on the last two speakers, neither of whom said anything I disagree with, except that I can't support the bill because of the pay- for that is in the bill. I'm convinced that we…

Let me start by just expressing my disappointment that some of my colleagues are spending so much time advancing the notion that we should be disqualifying people from exercising the most basic right that they have in our democracy, the…

I am deeply concerned that if the PPCA results in limited options for providers to merge or pool resources, health care costs will increase and points of service will start to disappear.

Thank you for convening this important hearing--maybe among the most important hearings we could be having.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Of course I'm not from Virginia, I'm from North Carolina, but that happens to me and Bobby Scott all the time. We get confused with each other, States and personalities, because we sit beside each other…

One of the few important accomplishments of the 112th Congress thus far has been the passage of the America Invents Act, a comprehensive reform of the United States patent system which was signed into law by President Barack Obama on…

Antitrust laws are the Magna Carta of free enterprise. They are as important to the preservation of economic freedom and our free enterprise system as the Bill of Rights is to the protection of our fundamental personal freedoms.

the default, generally for Congress I have found, is to do nothing, and I have found that is even more true for the Senate, by the way, than it is the House.

The prior user rights provision represents a fair balance between trade secrets and patented inventions within the marketplace.

It is not always feasible or desirable for every true invention to receive patent protection.

American intellectual property whether in the form of patents, copyrights, trademarks or trade secrets should be shielded from theft, piracy and infringement.

I thank the gentleman for yielding once again. And in response to my colleague from Virginia (Mr. Goodlatte), we have in fact been trying to work out our differences. The problem is that his definition of protecting privacy is not as…

I thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding time. I regret that I have to be the skunk at the party today in opposition to this bill. While I support innovation on the Web, I do not support it at the expense of consumer privacy. I…