May I inquire as to my remaining time, please. The CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Ohio has 4 minutes remaining.

This bill is unconstitutional. It will stifle American job creation, cripple American innovation. It throws out over 220 years of patent protections for individual inventors and violates the CutGo rules, increasing our deficit by over $1…

I would like to inquire as to the remaining time on both sides, please. The CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Ohio has 2 minutes remaining; the gentleman from Texas has 30 seconds remaining.

I yield 1 minute to my distinguished colleague and cosponsor in opposition to this bill, the gentleman from California (Mr. Rohrabacher).

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, if this bill is passed into law, it will violate the first right explicitly named in our Constitution, the intellectual property clause. This bill makes a total mockery of article 1…

I thank the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Polis) for yielding, and rise against this rule and the underlying bill. The bill is unconstitutional. It will stifle American job creation; cripple American innovation; it throws out 220 years of…

I just wanted to ask the gentlelady if she would find the present time convenient to enter into the discussion regarding GIPSA, though we are on this amendment at this point.

I thank the gentlewoman. And while I will not offer an amendment to strip section 721, a legislative provision that prevents the U.S. Department of Agriculture from doing its job as instructed in the farm bill, relative to fair competition…

I thank the gentleman so very much for that kind effort. The current proposal will silence the nearly 60,000 comments on the rule because it will prevent USDA from reading the record. And, finally, it will undermine long overdue fairness…

I move to strike the last word, Mr. Chairman. The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman from Ohio is recognized for 5 minutes.

I thank the gentleman. I thank you for yielding. We may not agree on everything, but I think if we agree on some of the history that brought us to this point, maybe we can do something right for the Republic, and certainly for those people…

I rise to associate myself with the fine efforts of Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and Ranking Member Sam Farr to point out the anemic funding that is contained in the base bill for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The Republican bill…