Honest to goodness, there are going to be small patent holders who are going to have to get up and fight the big boys who are abusing their patent rights.

However, MDA has fiscal challenges in 2016. The President's budget request for defense is $38 billion over the Budget Control Act caps.

Do you believe that an East Coast ground-based missile defense site should be a priority investment for our missile defense operations?

It goes right to the security of the Nation. Does it not?

Admiral, you have an important mission: to defend the United States and our troops and allies abroad from missile attacks, and to do so in as fiscally responsible a manner as possible.

But I hope that we will focus on your answer, which talks about the accuracy and reliability of the system itself and how that investment is much more important for the defense of the United States than expanding beyond our current…

Reports indicate that MDA's acquisition strategy for the redesigned kill vehicle is nearing approval at DOD.

We dramatically increased the funds for the Iron Dome missile protection system for Israel by $225 million in emergency funds and $175 million in base funds last year at a moment when Israel needed it the most, facing rocket attacks from…

You have been given an awesome responsibility to defend the United States of America and our troops and allies from missile attacks and to do it in a fiscally responsible way.

The President's budget request for defense is $38 billion over the Budget Control Act caps.

80 percent of patent litigation is not being filed by trolls, it is being filed by small- and medium-sized patent holders.

We have lost something that is a property right enshrined in the Constitution and something that is as critical to the future of the American economy as small- and medium-sized businesses.

I am concerned about that. Why would we return so quickly to something enshrined in the Constitution and critical to the development of the American economy?

We are out to club the trolls. That is what this is all about.

I do sympathize with, Mr. Anderson, your company and I do eat butter burgers; and, Mr. Powers, with your company.

What we are talking about are changes that are going to affect 80 percent of patent litigation, which most of us believe is totally legitimate.

We want to go after the real abusers in this, but we do not want to put a chilling effect on the patent system.

Every major university in Illinois has written to me saying, 'Oppose this patent reform.'