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I encourage them to come back to the table and support the consensus that would bring so many development benefits to countries.

I introduced the renewal of Trade Promotion Authority, which specifically authorized ongoing trade negotiations.

But I am for AGOA. It is something that we ought to do, something we must do.

Without TPA, the administration lacks congressional authority to negotiate and conclude trade agreements.

Despite my various calls for action and the calls of other Senators on this committee, the administration's efforts have been anemic in this regard.

The trademark system and the common name system that we have in the United States works very well

This raises serious concerns. The E.U. has aggressively been using trade agreements to inappropriately protect generic terms around the world.

I think the President's trade agenda is at risk if we do not do this.

I have been raising this with you and the administration now for years, and, frankly, I cannot quite understand why the administration does not get behind you and get this done.

I intend to support you and Ambassador Froman on AGOA and get that done as soon as we can.

Have you found that the profit margin for eyecare professionals in the context of selling contact lenses is diminishing?

So taking your hypothetical one step further then, it's analogous, you would say, to what--not just going to a doctor and being told, I'm prescribing you Lipitor and you may now purchase that from me, but going to a doctor and being told…

I get that. But is there a free rider problem and are profit margins diminishing?

I think that the profitability is probably going to be much less because I would think that, in my particular case, in my practice--and I am not speaking for the AOA--I can't buy a lens in the same volume that 1-800 can.

She wields the gavel very effectively.

Dr. Knight, so you're saying that although prices may go up for some they may go down for others, but overall the objective here is to decrease the price paid by the typical contact lens consumer, and do you think that's what will happen?

Okay. You heard Dr. Cockrell say a minute ago that he expects his profits will diminish, at least on the retail end of things, as a result of this. Does that surprise you, and do you expect that to be the norm among eyecare professionals?

I've got people on the ground handling that discussion back and forth with a live patient in the room.