Some of you didnt get to voteits because at 4 clock if you didnt make into the parking lot you were turned awaynow all day traffic had been an issue easily more than 5 thousand voters trying to get through these doors here in boone countycrazy long lines today. My family wishes it was over. Been waiting in line for an hour to come a half a mile. Florence Baptist Church was the one location for boone county. Deputies directing lainhart made the journey and just walked. sara lainhart rabbit hash 42and it was a other ways to get here. We drove all the way into florence and turned around and had to park at a steak and shake and just walked organizers say they were caught off guard. phyllis sparkschairperson boone county caucus this has exceeded everything we couldnt imagined. Its overwhelming. Weve never had an elections with one location insidethis massive church 65 volunteers tabulating and directing voters organizers say the flow of the voters went well some issues causing delaysfirst n
Done through the governor and the board of health but if we make those changes permanent right now the republicans have the majority in the house and the senate and that makes it difficult to go back to that is down the road to keep virginia moving and i would tell you that a big part of my job as a Lieutenant Governor is Economic Development we want to bring businesses in manufacturing jobs that pays for the things we like to talk about if we do that we need to welcome people we dont want to feature women like the Lgbt Community that is the direction we need to go into to move virginia for berg. I have a suggestion about how to dance the debate we mentioned the colorado situation for extending Birth Control and despite the fact one of the most conservative members led the fight against his own party. That is the great suggestion we will take you up on that. [applause] we will bring up more opinions. [inaudible conversations] now we have the distinguished panel you have memorized my la
And to our great cspan audience here is whats going on at the National Constitution center today. The most exciting bill of rights day in memory. Today, december 15 is the 223rd anniversary of the bill of rights ratification at the 225th anniversary of its proposal, this is the day we at the National Constitution center open a new gallery displaying one of the 12 original copies of the bill of rights along with rare copies of the declaration of independence and the Constitution Center. I should say i am jeff rosen president of the National Constitution center which as a hearty audience knows because of introduced it to times already is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. We had the idea of summoning the best constitutional thinkers in america from the left and right at all sides of the political spectrum who have written of the most interesting books about the constitution for the Constitu
Wont happen. Really if the people rule, if the democratic system is answerable enough, if it does not have all of these levers and barriers to the peoples will being stressed, it will express the public will, and that will mean it is a legitimate system of government. Paine asserted. I think jefferson was more careful about this. It will also mean the people comply to be governed with the technical capacity society. One of the fascinating things is this combination of democracy with a technocrat government. The early progressives there were many more mechanisms for direct democracy. People should be able to make their views known through referenda, they should be arresting jesses justices, the constitutional system, i think it is fair to say, is opposed to both of these. It does not trust the people. The constitution does not trust anybody. Lets assume everybody is wrong. What does a legitimate government look like then . I think that is one of the best things about the constitution. I
Individual patients through 200,000 visits. So also i would be remiss if i didnt say texas as im sure all of you in this room know, this is not Medicaid Expansion state, so, therefore, only children, the elderly and disabled are still eligible for medicaid. We are also a, on the federal run exchange we did not object to a state exchange. Our marketplace and how people are accessing it, they are coming into our clinic, making appointment or walking in. They meet first with a certified application counselor who starts the process by getting them to walk through the consent. This causes a lot of anxiety for some people, and because theyve heard a lot of bad publicity. Declared about identity theft. Theres also been several groups in houston that have been fraudulent groups out collecting information from people, and basically stealing their identity. Theres been a lot of publicity around it. We have to get over some of that anxiety. Then we have to determine the clients knowledge. And thi