Peter Welch actually said...

"It is really important, your responsibility, to have patents issued timely, appropriately, for innovators."

"What is the ability and the commitment of the Patent Office to stop the extension of that period of exclusivity and monopoly power that has been so consistently abused by the drug companies to rip off..."

"There are no two stronger champions of the intellectual property rights of innovators and patent holders than the two leaders of this Committee, Senator Coons, Senator Tillis, and I support your effor..."

"It is a timely hearing because there is a lot of vulnerability in a lot of our water and septic systems, especially in rural America."