Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 4572, the STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014, as amended, which renews for another 5 years the statutory license that allows satellite providers to retransmit distance signals into a local broadcast…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the previous question in order to bring the Protect Women's Health from Corporate Interference Act to the floor. In 1993, I was a leader…

Are the big auction houses doing okay in the art market and sales abroad where they have the resale rights?

Not everyone is big enough to retain counsel to fight infringement or a lobbyist to ensure their rights are protected as much as the 'big guy.'

This means that the artist receives no part of the long-term financial success of the work.

To date, Congress has failed to adopt a resale royalty right, a right which would grant visual artists a percentage of the proceeds each time their work is resold.

Because we do not provide this right, American artists are prevented from recovering any royalties generated from the resale of their works in countries that have resale rights.

So we have a robust market and an unfairness, and fixing the unfairness by passing this bill would not appear either theoretically or from experience over the last 20, 30 years to harm that market in any way?

So the harms that were predicted did not occur?

Everyone's testimony supports a creation of a Federal civil cause of action. Does anyone know of anyone who opposes that?

doing so would be a major mistake.