[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 92 (Friday, June 24, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1201]
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                          AMERICA INVENTS ACT

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                               speech of

                          HON. STENY H. HOYER

                              of maryland

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 22, 2011

       The House in Committee of the Whole House on the State of 
     the Union had under consideration the bill (H.R. 1249) to 
     amend title 35, United States Code, to provide for patent 
     reform:

  Mr. HOYER. Madam Chair, I rise in support of this legislation. I am a 
strong supporter, as many of you know, of what we call our Make It In 
America agenda. Make It In America simply means we are going to provide 
jobs, we are going to provide opportunities, and we are going to build 
the manufacturing sector of our economy. In order to do that we also 
need to enhance the inventive, innovative, and development phases of 
our economy. This bill, I think, will facilitate this.
  I congratulate the gentlelady from California for this amendment as 
well, which I think improves this bill. I rise in strong support and 
urge my colleagues to support this piece of legislation. I congratulate 
all of those who have worked on this legislation. It is obviously not 
perfect, but then again, no piece of legislation that we adopt is 
perfect. It is, however, a significant step forward to make sure that 
America remains the inventive, innovative development capital of the 
world. In order to do that we need to manufacture goods here in 
America--manufacture the goods that we invent, innovate, and develop 
here, because if we continue to take them to scale overseas, then the 
inventors, innovators, and developers will themselves move overseas.
  So I thank Mr. Smith, Mr. Watt, Ms. Lofgren, and the others who have 
worked so hard on this legislation, who have dedicated themselves to 
trying to make sure that we have a context and environment in America 
which will facilitate the innovative sector of our economy.

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