Hank Johnson: “A year and a half later, they finally swore in the first new…”

“Two months after he was inaugurated, Trump's Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick fired every member of the Patent Public Advisory Committee and the Trademark Public Advisory Committee. A year and a half later, they finally swore in the first new members. When Congress originally authorized fee setting authority under the America Invents act, we built in several oversight measures to ensure that this power could not be exercised without transparency, but rather with public input and independent expert review.” (10:30–10:36)

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