The Copyright Royalty Judges Program was supposed to determine distributions of royalties that are disputed and set or adjust royalty rates. terms and conditions. with the exception of satellite carriers compulsory licenses. The Senatepassed language would have helped pay the salaries and related expenses of the three royalty judges and three administrative staff required by law to support this program. Unfortunately. instead of raising more funds than we needed through widely supported increases in immigration fees and using them for these lawenforcement and other programs we are instead going to increase the cost of access to federal courts and not fund any of these other priorities. What may be the most troubling aspect of this abuse of power is that by substantially increasing fees to get into federal courts the majority party raised $253 million more in revenue than it needed to meet the reconciliation target. That means that all the above priorities in the Senatepassed bill including bulletproof vests for law enforcement. use of DNA technology to identify missing persons. and better enforcement of crime victims rights laws could have been included at only slightly reduced levels of support.
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