Chris Smith

The gravity of this situation was highlighted in the testimony of Stephen W. Barthold, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Center of Comparative Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine…

Clinical testing for Lyme disease remains abysmal.

I have been dismayed and, frankly, angered by the unwillingness of some to take a fresh, comprehensive look at this insidious disease.

If there is not confidence in the process and the transparency, it does erode a belief that this a completely on-the-up process

If only we had done the same with Lyme disease legislation in the late 1990s; there has been a missed decade on Lyme.

My personal commitment to combating Lyme disease is longstanding, going back 20 years...

Red flags should be going up everywhere, and I am wondering what you all are doing to try to help turn that around particularly with the President and others.

Do we have any evidence that it is coming from Iran?

I remember raising that myself throughout that entire conflict that the imposition of Sharia law on Catholics and Animists was largely underplayed.

I appreciate that. And on the trafficking?

I have been working with him and others throughout Africa ever since and they are still--I even have a pending bill we are trying to get to enhance, something you could do administratively, to help combat autism worldwide.

I asked Secretary Clinton this question. I am still waiting for an answer on foreign aid in general.

If I could, if you could answer, how big is Boko Haram? Where are they getting their weapons? Are the IEDs coming from Iran, for example?

So how big is Boko Haram; where is it getting its money?

I believe, at its core an attempt to impose Sharia law and to promote a radicalized version of Islam.

How large is Boko Haram? Where do they get their money? Where do they get their weapons?

For over 30 years the UNFPA, the U.N. Population Fund has significantly enabled and supported China's one-child-per-couple policy which has slaughtered countless babies, made brothers and sisters illegal, and has devastated the lives of…

It is all too convenient to suggest that somehow just because there are deprivations, somehow people then automatically know Osama bin Laden was rich.

Any money from Saudi Arabia that we----

China's one-child policy constitutes the longest-running and most far-reaching violation of human rights the world has ever seen.

I do not think that a two-child policy is the answer to the one-child policy.

We will try, I can assure you, we will try, and we will try hard to do that.

Your contribution will be remembered in the history of human rights in China and the world.

I would say make it one of the priorities, but we disagree.

The dialogue would be of some meaning. The problem has been is that it is often a gabfest with very little relationship to deeds.