Howard Berman
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"Howard Lawrence Berman" is an attorney and former United States House of Representatives/U.S. Representative, last serving , serving in Congress from 1983 to 2013. The district, numbered as the 26th District from 1983 to 2003, included about half of the San Fernando Valley. Berman is a Democratic Party (United States)/Democrat.

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I do believe that there's a patent quality problem.

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We have a bill which to my way of thinking has stripped out very significant reforms.

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I do believe that there's a patent quality problem. A lot of people who don't have an ax to grind think there needs to be reform.

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This bill does exactly what the administration said it wanted ... It sanctions companies, not countries, that sell weapons technologies. Buying time, to me, is a very important asset.

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There's a natural interest in international affairs, perhaps even greater than other parts of the country. California's economy, its international dimension, plays a huge factor as well as the part that so many Californians come from other countries.

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He's a legislator, not a press hound. He isn't doing things for the purpose of getting known, he's doing things for the purpose of having an impact.

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Whatever you think of redistricting, whatever you think of politicians, I don't know how an objective person wouldn't come to the conclusion that when you have two sides of a proposition, both sides should be governed by the same rules.

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It's a "man bites dog" story when longtime adversaries come together to lobby Members of Congress to support a bill.

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Any other ruling would have been manifestly unfair, ... Whatever you think of redistricting, whatever you think of politicians, I don't know how an objective person wouldn't come to the conclusion that when you have two sides of a proposition, both sides should be governed by the same rules.

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