Lemley predicting a return of fee diversion from the USPTO?

Suzanne Kubota of FederalNewsRadio.com wrote:

While a drop in applications will reduce the workload, Lemley says what little funding that does come into the Office is at risk.

Congress has had a tendency to take away some of that fee revenue and use it towards the general federal revenue and I think that's probably going to be an attractive alternative for Congress because of the substantial budget deficit.

Not surprisingly, this post links to BusinessWeek

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/apr2009/id2009048_138177.htm

which in turn links to peer-to-patent

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/mar2009/id20090318_730473.htm