We are joined today by our senate colleague, dr. Rand paul, who is obviously working with us very closely. Thank you, senator. And governor sanford, who together, will put forth a definitive plan that will adress the concerns that many of my constituents and constituents across the country and raised with regards to the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care act. An officialn position to support the full repeal of the Affordable Care act and today, takes the official position to actually support governor sanfords bill as a companion bill to the one that dr. Paul has introduced in the senate. We are excited about the fact that it will finally be able to address many of the concerns that we are hearing, whether it that town halls or from our constituents about preexisting conditions about how to empower the consumer in terms of their Health Care Choice and ultimately, drive down the price of health care. I would like to turn the podium over to dr. Rand paul for some comments. This
Good afternoon. Thank you so much. Our apologies. The vote made us wait a little bit but wanted to go up open up this press conference to really introduce what conservatives are coalescing around to be a conservative solution for our Health Care Concerns for americans. We are joined today by our senate colleague, dr. Rand paul, who is obviously working with us very closely. Thank you, senator. And governor sanford, who together, will put forth a definitive plan that will adress the concerns that many of my constituents and constituents across the country have raised with regards to the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care act. The House Freedom caucus has taken the official position to support the full repeal of the Affordable Care act and today takes the official position to actually support governor sanfords bill as a companion bill to the one that dr. Paul has introduced in the senate. We are excited about the fact that it will finally be able to address many of the concern
And effective Death Penalty reform act which made it nearly impossible to use habeas corpus to free innocent prisoners. Despite all of the setbacks come 2002 was a blockbuster year for the Innocence Movement. 25 people were exonerated by dna testing. Still the highest number of dna exonerations in any one year to date. Teenage exonerations became part of the public consciousness and people starte are starting to understand that the system made mistakes. It also is a big year for mike mcalister. People have forgotten about him, but his mom wrote to frank green, reporter at the Richmond Times dispatch who began writing about his case. A new lawyer also signed on to help mike and defiled a partners petition within Virginia Governor mike warner. Virginia was no stranger to the problem of wrongful convictions and had seen its share of eyewitnesses but in 2003, mikes petition was denied. The governors staff said they would be one thing if my cat dna evidence, but he didnt. From 20032013, 187
Professor watkins, i want want to add one thing to what you yo said about the guy in the she can guide the suit. There are a lot of women who are out there and are doing that kind of thing too. From the library is often a lot of predominantly women there but we also work with sororities, church groups, and you know men but also the women there with you ministries and all sorts of things are doing a lot too. I also want to say that there are two one place they come together is the Annapolis Senior Center where most of the people seem to have gone beyond a lot of stuff. Thank you. Ha thank you. [applause]. I always acknowledge all the people i work with and i shouldve clear my language, but i need to praise all the women my life or i would never be here. I. I can even do my own anything like, so thank you for that, and i will give it to. I would not be here. Amen. First of all, unfortunately that will conclude the panel. We just want to say, i know. Of course we are time constraints but
Itself issues. Texas a quand m, university of texas at austin, the university of houston, other institutions, these arell public universities. And these individuals, these students, pay tuition to go to these public universities. And in response, theyre issued identification vehicles. Identification cards. But the state of texas has seen fit to say, thats not valid in order to vote. And i think that one example, and weve heard several others, basically exposes the fact that the movement to impose voter identification requirements is a fraud itself. Its a sham. The whole argument behind it is that were trying to protect the integrity of the Voting System. Heres the problem. Youre protecting the integrity of the Voting System by imposing a solution in search of a problem. Because none of these individuals in any of these states has been able to produce a scintilla of evidence of fraud. In fact, there are studies that have shown that there have been over a billion instances of americans e