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On the recordJune 22, 2011
Well, reclaiming my time, whatever the reason was, we both agree we needed to have more time for the rules debate. And I will now move to the patent bill. And as I said, I will not discuss the pros and cons of this legislation, but I will say to you-- and I see the gentleman rising over here maybe trying to correct something that was said. There's no reason to correct anything other than the fact that we had a number of amendments that we offered and we would hope that we would have had an open rule. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has again expired.

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