Political Quotes

“I hope that the Senate will make a new year's resolution to focus its energy on issues that create American jobs, protect American ingenuity, and improve the lives of the American people. I was disappointed last year that we wasted so much of the Senate's limited time on partisan and divisive issues. This year the Senate should be in the business of doing America's business. We should be working in a bipartisan manner to enact copyright term extension legislation so that America's trading partners will recognize American copyrighted works for the same term that those countries grant their own national works. We should be passing encryption legislation to allow American hi-tech companies the freedom to compete vigorously in the global marketplace. We should be enacting patent reform legislation to help American innovators, big and small. High on the Senate's agenda for doing America's business should be ratifying the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaties and enacting WIPO implementing legislation.”