Director of external affairs, and he served in the Mission House of representatives elected speaker, lives in michigan with his wife, stacy, and three young daughters, and i thank you and justice fellowship for your appearance here today. Mark levin, at the texas Public Policy foundation, playing an Important Role in adult and justice reforms, and the state, the leader of the Public Policy foundation, right on crime initiative, led conservative efforts to reform the criminal Justice System. He was law clerk to judge will garwood on the fifth circuit and staff attorney at the texas supreme court. Thanks to the texas Public Policy foundations work led to reforms of the drug sentencing law and in particular, i thank you for your support for the sentencing act, which all members here today have cosponsored. Damon, a witness before us, in late september, he was missions 141st death row inmate to be exonerated on actual innocence grounds since the spring court reinstated Capital Punishment s
Get a fully develop the claim . I would make just a general comment before i turn this over to my staff. We believe that the reduction of the backlog is a combination of a claim process and dbqs and then also accountability thats passed onto the review officers. We think those three things are exactly the types of answers to not only reduce the claims but to a manageable level but then reduce the backlog entirely. Let me if i can ask a followup question, i know they work hard to encourage veterans be served to file as complete a claim as possible, but i also recognize they need options to file any way they want. Whether that is on that forum or perhaps on paper. Is that accurate and can you explain why its important that veterans still have the option to file a claim any way they want . Ill defer that to the staff. Its important that veterans still have the opportunity to file a claim, paper on the standard or regular form. Currently they can take that regular piece of paper or as many
Country and virtually nothing happens. No sustained comprehensive action is taken. But it is happening and it does every day. Illegal guns are the weapons of mass destruction on our streets. We experience as one of any fellow mayors has said has murder once by one by one in slow motion every single day in the United States of america. And so i ask the question, where is our right red line on violation violence in america . 10,000 plus murdered americans every year. That is a crime against humidity. We have a civil war unfolding in our cities every day, week, every month. Mary landrieu and i have both have spoken with president obama on this issue. He is ready to act. The question is where is the congress . What are they prepared to do . So let me ask this question, what if our response to domestic terrorism was as thorough and engaged as our response to International Terrorism . What if we had a 9 11 commission about black men getting slaughtered on the streets of america . A National
Hello, im ray suarez. Polio, small pox, measles, dip theyre i cant, whooping cough. They were scourges to the population bringing death to generations of human beings. One by one their burden has been lifted from humanity, certainly the developed world through the use of vaccines. Small pox has been irradicated. And now these diseases are rar rarely seen among American Kids. But these diseases have been allowed to gain a foot hold. Outbreaks would we would be seen once again in metropolitan areas because not everyone is vaccinated. Disease and vaccines on this inside story. People close to Ohio State University in the midst of mums outbreaks. Young children are most at risk. Parents will take kids to the mall, and theyll be exposed to germs that they wont normally see. There was a small outbreak. In 62009 there were 4,000 cases. But since the vaccination introduction mumps have dropped. Measles cases are also on the rise. 53 people in ten states have been infected with the disease this
Hello, im ray suarez. Polio, small pox, measles, dip theyre i cant, whooping cough. They were scourges to the population bringing death to generations of human beings. One by one their burden has been lifted from humanity, certainly the developed world through the use of vaccines. Small pox has been irradicated. And now these diseases are rar rarely seen among American Kids. But these diseases have been allowed to gain a foot hold. Outbreaks would we would be seen once again in metropolitan areas because not everyone is vaccinated. Disease and vaccines on this inside story. People close to Ohio State University in the midst of mums outbreaks. Young children are most at risk. Parents will take kids to the mall, and theyll be exposed to germs that they wont normally see. There was a small outbreak. In 62009 there were 4,000 cases. But since the vaccination introduction mumps have dropped. Measles cases are also on the rise. 53 people in ten states have been infected with the disease this