Mike Lee

I take a keen interest in ensuring that our competition laws are functioning well and having their desired effect of protecting competition.

I am particularly concerned that the bill might unsettle some legitimate contractual expectations the sports leagues have bargained for.

No one really likes sports blackouts, least of all the public.

I am certainly open to examining in the future whether the antitrust exemptions enjoyed by professional sports leagues in their current forms rest on sound justifications.

Those antitrust laws are an important and effective tool for ensuring free markets and protecting low consumer prices.

Americans are sending a consistent message which is, do not break the Internet.

The proposed regulations... would, I fear, do nothing to make the underlying problem better, but instead, I fear, would make it much, much worse.

Do not mess with the most vibrant, expansive, even explosive area of our economy because it has worked and it has worked well.

If the electric utility company in question decided to get into the business of providing its own air conditioning equipment to its rate payers, if it did that and then engaged in practices that favored its own system as compared to…

The issue of an open Internet has attracted a lot of attention from a lot of Americans.

Subjecting the Internet to heavy-handed regulations... could threaten to do precisely that.

Unwise regulation in this area would do nothing, I fear, but stifle much-needed innovation in Internet service.

Military assistance from the U.S. Government and the coalition has been, and will continue to be, predicated upon the formation of an inclusive Iraqi government.

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

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.

Are the Peshmerga and Kurdish political leaders supportive of a unified and stable government in Baghdad?

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.

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

Well, thank you for the question, Congresswoman Chu.

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

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?

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?

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?

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…