The current drop in Vaccination Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will please come to order. I would like to welcome everyone and go through some administrative matters that we do at the beginning after consulting with the attending physician, the sergeant at arms, cdc, health and Human Services, individuals are seated six feet apart. There is no room for the public to attend and the press is working as a pool and the hearing may be watched gaveltogavel online. Both of our witnesses, dr. Collins and Surgeon General adams are participating in person. Some are in person, some are participating by videoconference. The office of attending physician has advised that senators and witnesses may remove their masks to talk in the microphone since our chairs are six feet apart or more. That is why my mask is off and i am more than six feet apart and when i am in a hall or walking on the senate floor, i wear my mask. We are grateful to the rules committee the sergeant at arms, th
But for the an inconvenience. But for the little guy these new requirements are killers. They dont have the 100,000 they can drop into this, keeping better books over here or getting hold of all these people or exposing anybody who has invested in their patent. This also enables nested shell companies, which have few assets, but can infringe on patents while the inventor is unable to sue their customers. Who are free to continue infringing. So they set up well just do all of our business with this technology through that company, so if we get sued, they cant get at us. No way. The First Court Case they are going to were going to shield these big guys who are stealing. This process could keep an infringing process in place for a decade or more while the inventer is trying to find ways of getting inventor is trying to find ways of stopping that infringement. This authorizes the Patent Office director to create a patent troll database and create a strategy to teach Small Business how to d
You know, i think that its my question suggests, at least i view it, is that it is a neithernor process but equity on the low reduce the burden on low and middle class is not just morally responsible but about two thirds of the economy is fueled by Consumer Spending and lower and middle class families have a higher percentage that they need and spend on goods and services. So in that respect i think it makes sense to be looking at how the consequences of reform deal with them not just on corporate taxes as well because i think it will fuel spending that will help private sector profits. Senator packwood, at the end of your testimony, in 1983, 1900 people who earned a million or more paid no federal tax and that fact was due to a myriad of special interest loopholes clogging the arteries of the tax code before 86. And as you noted in your testimony, the product that passed the finance committee 200 and would later become law raised the taxes significantly on corporations and rich indivi
From smallpox to polio, we have learned that vaccines save lives. The troubling number of parents are not vaccinating their children. Last september, this Committee Held a hearing about the ebola virus. A brave and physician who worked in liberia and contracted people a and a brave father contracted people a e ebola. There was and is no cure. There was and is no vaccine. This produced a near panic in the United States. It changed procedures in nearly every hospital and clinic. Every member one chattanooga Public Health officer saying it is all people up all the time every day ebola all the time every day. Measles is too sick and up to 4 million americans each year. Many believed it was an unpreventable childhood illness. Introduction of a vaccine in 1963 changed everything. Measles was declared eliminated. Absence of continuous disease transmission for more than 12 months. From 20012012, the median number of cases reported in all of our country was about 60. Today is february 10, 2015
Allows them to allocate a certain amount of money to the candidates running for office and the candidates can take those vouchers would say a 50dollar voucher here if they agree to limit the contribution that they take to the vouchers in a small competition, lets say 100 frankly. 50 dollars would be about 7 billion in 2014 the total amount spent by Congress Shall candidates was 1. 5 billion. Which means that this is real money to point his the voucher system would mean that money comes from many people and not just the. 04 were not just a. 024 . So it filters perhaps because it is not everybody that is going to participate, but it isnt biased in the way that the Current System is biased by allocating the funding to the tiny tiny fraction of the 1 . Democrats have been pushing this idea of matching funds John Sarbanes from maryland, the governor by the the peoples act that basically takes the small contributions and multiplies them up to 91 to make them much more valuable. As a 100 beco