Amy Klobuchar

This is an important issue in our state.

Members of Congress have been good enough with their foresight, through their America Invents Act, to give us fee-setting authority.

I think you know our Attorney General in Minnesota, Laurie Swanson, has been very aggressive about these cases and worked hard on them.

With more and more households cutting the cord on their landline phones, the FCC should take all necessary steps to prevent crammers from finding new opportunities with wireless bills.

I am glad that Senator Blumenthal as a former Attorney General understands how important it is as well.

This has been a very good hearing and we've learned a lot.

Do you want to add anything, Dr. Cockrell?

If the point is to save consumers money, I don't know why we have a minimum price we can't go below.

So what are you--you have--I think I had asked someone else this before this hearing, but you have what percentage of the market?

It's kind of hard to see. Maybe I need better contact lenses or something.

They said that they instituted minimum retail prices to assure that the selling price for the product was sufficient...

Could I just say one more thing with these price--minimum price agreements? Like, how long do they last?

You know, just to be fair, should I read him the paragraph from the Alcon testimony?

This is what? Before? Okay. Before the retail----

So, when they go on 1-800 CONTACT LENS--we're going to say it as much, you know, for your marketing. So when they do that, they have to have a prescription with them to get it?

But that's going to be taken away with this?

So the reason was--or your belief and the reason was that you set these low minimum prices and then they're guaranteed to be passed on. Is that right?

Dr. Knight, what do you think the effect this is going to have on innovation to do this?

I have a lot of sympathy for our retailers like Best Buy and Target with this marketplace fairness issue.

In 2007, the Supreme Court decided that minimum resale price maintenance... should not be banned outright.

That would be called like advanced eye treatment.

We have made some progress in at least stabilizing the rate of childhood obesity in part because of the reforms that have been enacted.

I do not think we should be rolling back or postponing the standards right now.

I think it is a good bridge between our Nation's farmers and our children.

I supported the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act in 2010 when it passed on a bipartisan basis to overwhelming support.