Bob Goodlatte

In the case of perfume, it is easy to have a product that the code can be tampered with and put in a product that came in the original bottle that has been tampered with, adulterated, could cause harm when applied to the skin. With regard…

Any item is potentially left at the scene of a crime. Any item could be left at the scene of a crime and could be traced to determine who it was that committed the crime.

Illegal gambling on the internet is a rapidly growing industry--the Justice Department estimates that $600 million was bet illegally on sports alone over the internet last year, a tenfold increase over 1996. Congress must take action this…

I would point out that just yesterday petitions signed by more than half a million American citizens were delivered here at the Capitol from right to work supporters all across the country, urging a vote on this important legislation. I…

Both political parties claim Thomas Jefferson and much of his philosophy as a part of their historic tradition, and certainly I from Virginia am very proud of Thomas Jefferson. He said it best: "To compel a man," and of course today we…

I thank the gentleman for yielding this time to me, and I ask that a letter received from Senator Bob Dole dated today be placed in the record

With regard to the obstruction of justice, Article III, and the charge of suborning perjury or witness tampering with regard to Betty Currie, everyone here should understand that the issue is not whether or not Betty Currie was a witness

It is a somber day as we consider articles of impeachment against the President of the United States

With regard to the trustworthiness of the President to continue in office or the President's fitness for office, with regard to Article III of the articles of impeachment, let the facts be known

The point about publication is it is not just the choice of the individual inventor but, rather, the publication of everyone's patent applications. If no one else has published, then the entrepreneur has the assurance that that one being…

45 percent of the patents that are filed in the U.S. Patent Office are filed by foreign inventors, and we do not have the opportunity to see in the English language what is published by those folks. Second, no one has addressed the whole…

This patent reform bill fights against abuse of and gaming of the current system, which is a great playground for some lawyers to make huge fees at the expense of the American consumers and taxpayers, and we are correcting that with this…

I ask do we know how many hundreds of millions of dollars the attorney for Mr. Lemelson received in fees thus far for his submarine patenting?

That has not been the experience in Europe where this process has been used, and I would suggest that this is very much the type of change that we need in this country. This committee has improved the patent system for 200 years. I urge…

Therefore, publication has a number of benefits to inventors, including knowing that you are not wasting your time doing something that somebody else is already ahead of you on, and getting capital investment in your invention sooner…

Mr. Chairman, the important thing to note here is that only in places where housing is widely available do we allow a grower to issue a housing allowance instead of to provide the housing itself. That is only a matter of flexibility, not…

The difference between the current H-2A program and the Pombo amendment is that the H-2A program requires an independent third party to certify whether there is a need for the workers. That is the big objection to the earlier legislation…

This bill does not apply to proposition 187. My State of Virginia does not have initiatives, it just has referendums. But the State legislature can put a referendum on the ballot, millions of people can take time to go to the polls. The…

The people of the State of Virginia, through their elected representatives, have the right to decide this issue. We in the Federal Government should not be funding a rogue organization that is going to go in and offer a contrary view to…

I think the National Trust for Historic Preservation should make a choice. They should either make the decision that they are going to simply be involved in preserving individual historic properties, in which case there may be an argument…

How would that same defendant like to be put in the situation where the plaintiff said, ``I've got a harm here, it's been established, don't worry about how much you give me because this defendant has X number of millions of dollars in…

In fact what we are saying here is this is a case where liability has already been established on the part of the defendant. The defendant is the responsible party, the one who has caused the harm and now gets to say, hey, don't worry…

Also look at the parallel that we talked about a moment ago between the plaintiff who has been concerned about--say it is a self-employed individual, been concerned about his family, has bought insurance for the family for years, compared…

I have no dispute whatsoever that a plaintiff should not be able to double dip, if you will, but I think that should be taken outside the courtroom. This argument that somehow insurance should be brought into the case is exactly comparable…

Give me a big award. The one who has been responsible, then the defendant gets to come in and say, ``Don't worry about him because his medical bills are being paid by someone else,'' and that contravenes public policy.