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…

I too have introduced legislation to require electronic filing of Federal Election Commission reports, and I would hope that our colleagues on the other side of the aisle who have complained about the lack of opportunities to support real…

strong encryption products are the locks and keys of the digital age. To ensure that the computer files of American citizens are protected, I have introduced H.R. 695, the SAFE Act, Security and Freedom through Encryption, which has 250…

Nonacquiescence by Federal agencies has been an ongoing problem for most of this century dating as far back as the 1920s. Many Federal agencies, in particular the Internal Revenue Service and the Social Security Administration, have…

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

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

I rise in support of H.R. 2265, the No Electronic Theft, or NET Act of 1997. The NET Act closes a loophole in our Nation's criminal copyright law and gives law enforcement the tools they need to bring to justice individuals who steal the…

H.R. 2366 is a short bill. It simply transfers the authority to conduct the census of agriculture from the Secretary of Commerce to the Secretary of Agriculture, and eliminates this authority from the Secretary of Commerce as of October 1…

exactly 50 years ago today on September 17, 1947, the Freedom Train began its historic 16-month tour across the United States. This special train, commonly known as the Spirit of 1776, carried over 100 historic documents to hundreds of…

I am proud to support House Joint Resolution 54, which gives the Congress and the States the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the American flag. This has over 280 cosponsors who share my commitment to giving back to the…

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…

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…

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…

The lawyers that the gentleman suggests will benefit by this work for the many, many, many American businesses who strongly support this legislation. And would the gentleman suggest, and I am sure the gentlewoman would not suggest, that…

The fact of the matter is, under our legislation, they have that same amount of time, they have that time under the new legislation, and they will have, in most cases, more time than they have under current law. Furthermore, the average…

Reclaiming my time, I would point out to the gentleman that there is a provision in the bill already that preserves the right of anybody to withdraw their patent application prior to the 18-month publication date and preserve their right…

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?

I would be happy to respond. The individual who is in the process and is having a lengthier time processing the patent application than the 19-month average would be concerned about that. Under those circumstances, they would withdraw the…

in light of the deluge of misinformation that has been circulating recently on H.R. 400, the 21st Century Patent Improvement Act, I would like to speak briefly on how this legislation benefits small inventors as well as the entire Nation…

With the benefits created by the explosion of computer networks comes a very serious concern: Network computers also provide new opportunities for criminal activity. The computer emergency response team, known as CERT, based on the…

as the lead sponsor of H.R. 2511 I am proud that this House is taking a decisive step to make it tougher for product counterfeiters to prey on American business and American consumers and cost American workers their jobs. Counterfeit…