Whenever you have a country that doesn't treat our pharmaceutical manufacturers fairly in the process...

I understand why countries want to have a compulsory license. If they have a life-saving drug and a company chooses not to sell it in a particular market, they're going to use their compulsory license.

I share, Chairman Schapiro, your concern that if you have got to have an intervention and whether that intervention is de minimis or larger, if it is breaking the buck, it has the potential of starting and unraveling.

If conditions on the ground in Afghanistan do not improve as expected what will be the mechanism for revising the current sizing strategy?

What factors will determine the size of ANSF after the U.S. and NATO transition primary security responsibility to the ANSF?

What is the evidence that security situation in Afghanistan will be sufficiently improved by 2017 to allow the ANSF to be reduced by 120,000 troops?

I would like to thank the members of the committee and our witnesses today for your testimony.

I want the United States to stand with those brave Egyptians and we don't want the word to spread that somehow we only care about your nationality if you're an American.

Research indicates the demand reduction through prevention, education, and treatment is much more effective than supply reduction through interdiction and law enforcement efforts.

You are adding to the crime rather than detracting from it.

I consider it our responsibility in supporting and directing their efforts to ensure that their dedication and sacrifices are put to the most effective as well as productive use.

I am pleased to join you in convening this oversight hearing on our Nation's Drug Enforcement Agency.

As the trading rules and regulations deal with or have affected small and mid-cap companies, perhaps in a disproportionate way, I was wondering if you could each talk just generally about what the solution is or how it is that we can…

Federal court, where you have the draconian mandatory minimums, have been shown to have a discriminatory impact.

What is the policy of the DEA on mandatory minimums?

You don't have a position supporting mandatory minimums as a crime-fighting tool?

the consumers who get hit the hardest are in fact the poor, the working poor, and the elderly?

there is nothing funny about it.