Mike Lee

But to assume that requires us to assume at the outset that the patent is, in fact, invalid.

Proponents of the agreements have argued that the agreements can never properly be considered anti-competitive.

Both this recoupment of investment and these profits are jeopardized by lawsuits that are filed by generics.

Opponents of reverse settlements have for several years argued that they're anti-competitive.

Pharmaceutical patents are extremely valuable and it's for good reason that they're valuable.

Were there some recommendations that were more controversial than others among the stakeholders?

Is it your view that there are unique features, unique aspects, of energy sector water usage that are of particular concern or is it more just that people are concerned about the quantity of it or that it's there?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

The most important fact to consider when examining water supply issues in the Colorado River Basin is that the river and its usage are primarily governed by the Colorado River Compact of 1922.

Water supply has been and always will be a contentious and challenging issue in the American West.

No one who is familiar with the DC Circuit's current caseload can honestly say that the court is overworked or that it is in need of an additional judge, let alone two or three additional judges, as the administration has been suggesting.

Based on that objection and despite Peter Keisler's stellar record and the fact that he had really broad-based bipartisan support throughout the legal profession, Democrats in the Senate blocked his nomination to the DC Circuit.

On July 27, 2006, a number of my Democratic colleagues, including several current Members of this Committee, signed a letter arguing that an additional nominee to the DC Circuit 'should under no circumstances be considered must less…

I certainly do not think the same argument can be made today, and I am pleased that you as a prosecutor never went down that road.

Don't you think there might be different Fourth Amendment interests at play where we are dealing with a much broader scale?

I do not think it is settled. I hope it is one--I am going to ask if I am confirmed--that the Department of Justice is thinking about.

That seems to me to be a problem, and it is one that Chairman Leahy and I have been working on together.

A lot of people have concerns about what, if any, limiting principles there are that would prevent the government from ultimately storing all information about all Americans.

The more you aggregate large quantities of metadata, potentially on every single American citizen, and you give someone within the executive branch of government the power to search all of that, you do give them a pretty broad view into…

There is no higher honor than being able to represent your fellow citizens, and so I am quite honored to be here today with you.

I want to assure you that I will continue to work tirelessly on behalf of the Department's singular mission to pursue justice on behalf of the American people.

To the extent quantitative easing does have these impacts that I've described, it does so basically by way of encouraging consumption.

Did the excessive leverage, whatever its cause, tend to exacerbate the crisis that arose in 2008?

Does quantitative easing have an impact on the accumulation of government debt?

I too am pro-immigrant. I am pro-immigration reform. We are a Nation of immigrants. I hope we always will be.