Political Quotes

“Mr. President, there are inventors in Colorado and Hawaii and across this Nation whom we don't even know about because the fact is, we have missed the opportunity to engage more people and have more diverse inventors. We have to look at this from several different perspectives. Let's look at it from a national security perspective. I have chaired the Intellectual Property Subcommittee for the last two Congresses. We heard endless reports of how China is churning out patents and more and more patents, breaking records every day. This commonsense amendment does nothing more than allow people to submit information that we can use to get a better beat on communities that we need to get into to create more intellectual property, to create more patents, and to get more people engaged in the patents and intellectual property system. With this bill, I believe we will make great strides. I hope everybody will vote for this amendment. Thank you. Vote on Amendment No. 1517 The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment.”