My colleagues the status of where we are in regards to the professions in the cares act that relate to Small Businesses. First i want to make it clear that our top priority for americas businesses, whether they be Small Businesses or large businesses, is to get this covid19 behind us, to stop the spread of this deadly disease, to give confidence back to the American People that its safe to pursue their economic desires and, therefore, to have businesses be able to go back to a situation where they have customers and they can be open for business. We have appropriated significant resources in order to make sure we do whats right financially to deal with this deadly disease. And we have provided the tools to to protect our economy. So let me talk a little bit about the attention to Small Business. Im pleased and proud to be the ranking democrat in the Small Business and entrepreneurship committee. I serve with senator rubio, who is the chairman of the committee. And we have worked togeth
In biology with a minor in chemistry. In college he worked as a medical scribe for doctors in the emergency room in a small hospital in chattanooga and after decided he wanted to become an emergency room physician. He continued his education at loyola university, the school of medicine. Allow me a few seconds to praise this wonderful school. He was one of dozens of Daca Recipients, which was the First Medical School to admit daca students. They do not receive any special treatment in the Selection Process and they are not eligible for a penny in federal financial assistance. Many of them borrowed money from the state of illinois to complete their medical education in the hopes that once they are licensed they can come back and practice in our state which they promise to do. Heres what manuel says about what daca means to him. And i quote. Daca has opened up many doors for me. It allows me to serve people through emergency medicine. If daca ended, i would have to stop not only what i lo
Weeds here, to maintain a practicing license has to get a certain amount of continuing medical education every year. And whats happened over the past decade and a half is more and more of that continuing medical education has been funded by the Drug Companies or the companies that make certain products. And the challenge is as the questioner pointed out, the funding passes through and its technically an unrestricted grant and there are various fire walls in place. Everybody who has looked at this from the Senate Investigations to the institute of medicine to the american medical colleges report have all expressed deep concern about the potential of cme funding to influence prescribing. But its been a tricky issue of how do you capture it. What cme has come down on it is if a Company Finds out within the year that their funds were used to went to a particular doctor then thats a reportable payment and thats consistent with how other indirect payments through an intermediary are treated
British business groups have welcomed Boris Johnson's ambitions for the UK's economy in his speech to the ruling Conservative Party conference — but they are skeptical as to how his vision can be achieved.