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On the recordJune 21, 2011
I think it is tremendously important. We lose hundreds of billions of dollars of GDP to intellectual property theft every year.
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Thomas Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Coburn emphasizes the significant economic impact of intellectual property theft.

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