U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren: “Congress on Technology Issues: All Talk and No Action”
SAN JOSE, CA - I bring your attention to an op-ed penned by one of San Jose’s very own Congressional representatives, Zoe Lofgren, that ran in yesterday’s San Jose Mercury News. Entitled, “Congress on technology issues: all talk and no action,” it walks through an argument of why, in her mind, this Congress hasn’t gotten anything done on technology issues.
Her lede is politically focused, “As we approach the November elections, America’s technology leaders should be asking what the 109th Congress has done for the tech sector and American innovation. From my perspective, the answer is a whole lot of talk, and not nearly enough action.” However, among other points, she makes a great point on patent reform lower in the piece, “...legislation to reform the patent system, introduced over a year ago, has yet to move out of a House subcommittee. Parasitic patent lawsuits continue unabated, yielding windfall profits for holders of questionable patents and raising the costs of creating new technologies.”
As the elections are a week away and we head to the polling place (or in my case, vote via permanent absentee), we all SHOULD be asking if our Representatives are “representing” us…so Rep. Lofgren is asking the right question.
Posted by John Earnhardt at 11:10AM PST
ProTruePatriots Sep 15, 2008
Zoe Lofgren is pushing for 500,000 guest-worker visa renewels at a time when 1 in 10 people are unemployed.
Zoe, why are we paying for any foreigner’s graduate degree when I, an educated American with a bachelor’s degree, would like a graduate degree but cannot find funding? Is this what the American dream is all about? Help the rest of the world first and ignore our own children whose forefathers fought for the freedom of the United States?
How unpatriotic!
This country is in crisis because we have given away jobs that very qualified and available Americans could have taken.
Is it fair to say that Zoe is in the back pocket of corporate America?
I have been an ardent supporter of Barak Obama until now.