Ron Johnson

The Pentagon will never operate like a business, but it still must reform its business operations.

I think absolutely every department in the Federal Government needs a capital budget.

Again, this is just simple math. You come up with an estimate. You compared it against a baseline, and you are not providing the American people with the information they need.

I am also pushing for biennial budgeting.

It sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

Do people actually buy fentanyl, or do they buy it because they think it is heroin?

One of the questions we have submitted to CMS is how much are they spending reimbursing for opioids.

I am not making the claim that this epidemic is just because of Medicaid expansion.

OK. We have a problem that needs to be further explored, and so we did explore it.

OK. I read something in a magazine article, that $800 worth of fentanyl produces about $800,000 of street value.

This is a governmentwide program phenomenon where American taxpayers are providing well-intentioned funds into some of these programs.

Does the State Department estimate how much it is costing, on an annual basis, Iran and, separately, Russia, to be engaged in Syria?

So who has that kind of money?

There is going to be no legitimization from the broad international community, either for Russia or for Syria.

We will need Russia to cooperate with us to get Iran out first.

Only with Russian cooperation are you going to get rid of Assad.

My point being is sanctions against Iran is not going to get them out of there. Correct?

So having relaxed those sanctions, allowing--by the way, do we have a final figure, a pretty good estimate of how many dollars have flowed into Iran because of the JCPOA?

How long did it take those sanctions, in complete cooperation with our partners, to really take effect, to bring Iran to the table?

So, were those requests granted?

So, you can suffer an injury from an illness, but at what point do you believe an injury was caused by some type of attack, or are you still not certain of that?

I take Senator Rubio's description of the ARB and what is required by law, but as a medical doctor, it seems like you hopped on this pretty quick.

Have we ever set up any kind of monitoring device in any of those residences?

How often is that? Is it a hundred percent of the time there is--they hear something or?

Are you aware of these types of symptoms with any other Cuban nationals or people that were not associated with the United States diplomatic corps?