Economic damage, really us with a strong recovery to the heroes act takes that wisdom to heart. It is the bold and transformative step we need to ensure our nation meets the challenge of the pandemic and the ensuing economic recession. Much of the bill is in the jurisdiction of other committees and my fellow Committee Chairs will tell you more how this bill meets the needs of the American People. By putting money directly in the pockets of workers, including our essential workers, supporting Small Businesses and nonprofits and further bolstering families, including their Health Security and workplace security. However, there is much in the appropriations to address the health and economic crisis for the people. First and foremost, the bill delivers nearly 1 trillion to states and local governments so they can keep our heroes, first responders, health workers, teachers and other Public Servants paid and working for us. I am incredibly proud that this bill will provide 67 billion to my h
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
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
America and were led by a group of leaders. Tom coburn was in that group that got elected, i was was in that group, senator graham was in that group. There were a few members of that class who became known as bomb throwers. Tom coburn was a bomb thrower and he would object for the sake of objecting to anything going on. It didnt matter which side of the aisle that was coming from but they told you he matured into a class act which he always was but a second, he matured into a legislator second to none he doesnt hesitate to object to any spending bill that came from either party if tom coburn believed that it wasnt provided for in the constitution and is something that taxpayers shouldnt be paying for. There is nobody that has guarded the pocketbook of the taxpayers of the United States like tom coburn. It is remarkable that those of us had the opportunity to see him over the last 20 years to take on major subjects that most veterans said in the end we are going to prevail but they neve
Objection. The Labor International union. Objection. Boilermakers, black smiths objection. And something a lot of us belong to, the American Association of retired person. Objection. Who say the following, in their third paragraph. The lengthy and complex proposal has not been introduced. This letter was written on the third of december. The legislation has not been considered by a committee or subject to a hearing and the language has not been reviewed by members of congress and the public and those retirees who will be affected have had no opportunity to consider the impact of this legislation. Yet, the proposal may be atta attached to the fiscal year 2015 omnibus and enacted without further scrutiny. That was written on the third of december. I know they are not pres yent, so they were tracking, as others do, the progress of the legislation. I didnt include the Pension Rights Center and i ask their letter be included as well, mr. Chairman. The machinist put up a picture that everyon