Dwight Evans

Intellectual property is a $6.6 trillion industry that accounts for over 1/3 of total U.S. gross domestic product.

Protecting the intellectual property rights for technology innovation can support long-term job growth, increase exports, and drive development.

Digital technology has become a vital part of nearly every industry.

I want to end with that comment by the great gentlewoman from the State of Texas on Chairman Richmond's leadership of the Congressional Black Caucus. There is no better way to end than that comment. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of…

I would like to ask one quick question then. Ms. Jackson Lee has visited some of these locations. Can she describe--because I haven't been there, or maybe for people who haven't--exactly what is going on in those centers.

Can you tell me how much time I have remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Fitzpatrick). The gentleman from Pennsylvania has 1\3/4\ minutes remaining.

As our Nation strives to regain its global competitiveness, it is critical that companies of all sizes have access to the skilled workforce they need to succeed.

I have not met anybody who doesn't want to work.

I thank the gentlewoman from the great State of Wisconsin for her comments. I want to introduce someone else who is also on the Budget Committee, who I have watched a long time in the short period of time that I have been here. She has…

I would like to ask my colleague from Alabama (Ms. Sewell) one quick question. She raised a very good point about promise. Does she have any last thought about the element of promise; could she just take a minute or so, just really from…

Obviously, today, the President is on the verge of nixing the Iran deal. Obviously, that has huge implications.

After listening to this discussion, you really have sort of made the case of a bill I just dropped, H.R. 5512, to require the administrators of the Small Business Administration to establish a grant program to address rising costs of tax…

The goal of this Committee is to assist small firms in providing retirement plans, because only about 14 percent of employers do so.

We can do better and have made strides in increasing that number.

Only 14 percent of small firms offer such a benefit.

It is critical that small employers and their employees have access to quality financial security in their retirement years.

As part of their retirement planning, most Americans rely on employer-based retirement plans.

I would like to, if I can, just follow up a little bit on the Voting Rights Act. Obviously, that is the foundation of a democracy, and it is rather amazing to me that all of us in this Congress are elected by the people. I tell people the…

I thank the gentleman for his comments. Mr. Speaker, we have another person, who is a neighbor of mine and has been a very good friend, from the great State of New Jersey. We have got that Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman Bridge connection…

We know the goal was to identify the underlying causes of the civil unrest. Mr. Speaker, what I hear Mr. Ellison saying with that 250 years, the first time I ever heard that described that way, I would ask him to talk to us a little bit…

I heard the gentlewoman say, obviously, 1968, and we are now in 2018. I yield to the gentlewoman to tell me what she thinks, in terms of the conditions in 1968, which were obviously the riots, to where we are in 2018. I know there has been…

I think showing those pictures, if anything, should get our point across. I hope that those pictures will send a message to all of us. Closing out tonight--and I think all our colleagues really just summed up this gun violence issue--is…

I thank the gentlewoman from Florida. Mr. Speaker, I have someone who, when I came here, I said I have to meet her. She is a very dynamic person. She is the Honorable Barbara Lee from the 13th Congressional District of California, and I…

I would like to ask my colleague from Florida a question, since she talked about her law enforcement background. And she is correct, Congress is to make laws. This Presidential administration talks about being law and order. Is he really…

Coming behind the gentleman from Mississippi, we have someone who knows a little bit about weaponry. She herself has a background. She was the police chief in Orlando. And since she and I are in the same class, I have learned a lot from…