Mike Lee

I am especially concerned that the Iraqi Security Forces lost large quantities of U.S.-provided weapons to ISIL forces.

I believe that the threat of these fighters returning from the battlefield to carry out attacks... are an issue that we must be addressing now.

We do not have enough amphibious ships but given today's fiscal environment and budget uncertainty, the current plan provides the best balance of assets in this period of limited resources and diminishing flexibility.

The President should, in my opinion, do everything he possibly can to protect Americans and to protect U.S. facilities in Iraq and Syria from ISIS.

I believe, however, like many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, that the President should seek congressional authorization for his expanded campaign to degrade and destroy ISIS.

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.

Okay. Mr. Slover, what's your response to this, particularly the assertion that on the whole for the average customer, prices are going to go down as a result of the unilateral pricing policy?

Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and thanks to all of you for joining us today.

Well, thank you for the question, Congresswoman Chu.

We had to cut a number of our critical IT projects, right?

We heard that these proceedings are providing a cost-efficient and more timely manner in which to adjudicate the validity of the patents.

Do you believe that it is in the national security interest of the United States for DOD to continue to ensure that we maintain a domestic source of the critical chemical ammonium perchlorate used in space launches and tactical and…

For national security purposes, it desires the development of a domestic replacement of the RD-180 so that we do not have to rely on Russia for certain launch capabilities.

Would you please give me an update on the status of this report and your thoughts on the usability of other propulsion systems like solid rocket motors for NSS launch?

These laws matter. I can point to several instances in which, absent such laws, university or hospital policies would have forced medical personnel to perform abortions.

We can choose life, and when this debate finally 1 day ends, I think we will. I think we will choose life.

Many medical experts and health providers have strong moral and ethical concerns, as they have every right to have, with providing abortions.

I believe in the innate dignity of every human life, and I believe every human society is rightly judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members.