[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 116 (Wednesday, August 17, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 17, 1994]
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  SPECIAL INTERESTS THREATEN RIPOFF OF INVENTORS UNDER GATT PROVISIONS

  (Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Madam Speaker, seeing that we are discussing crime, 
I thought it would be appropriate for me to come to the floor and 
discuss the coming GATT Treaty and the ripoff of American inventors 
that the current GATT implementing legislation represents.
  Little do the American people know and little do the Members of this 
House know that buried deep in the GATT implementation legislation is 
language not required by GATT but put in by special interests that will 
dramatically reduce the amount of time that our inventors are 
protected. If this passes, hundreds of millions of dollars that now go 
from Japanese corporations to pay royalties to American inventors will 
stay in the pockets of those big multinational Japanese corporations. 
It is one of the biggest ripoffs in American history.
  I am a free-trader. I supported NAFTA. But I ask my colleagues, 
please look at the provisions of the GATT implementing legislation and 
let us not allow this ripoff of American inventors to take place.

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