Joyce was appointed by governor perry to serve as the representative of the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of texas and she is honored to have been the first non lawyer appointed to serve on the board of directors of the Innocence Project of texas. I will ask her not to come to the podium and take over for a while. Thank you for being here. [applause] a good evening everyone im so glad to see so many of your faces i havent seen in years. Some of you are new to me altogether so im very glad to be meeting you for the first time tonight. I want to thank the doctor and the entire staff at the Dallas Institute for being so supportive of my work over the years whether it was in the form of books, manuscripts, screenplays, columns and magazine pieces. Doctor allen is always a friend i could call and i could get his opinion and he was always and is very supportive. Thank you. The Dallas Institute is great because you are here. Before we start i would like to dedicate tonights book readin
Some of these areas for oil drilling but what about these national treasures, you want to protect them for the future and he said lets make the process work. So that is when we were able to put the legislation together that stopped the process from moving forward and ultimately decide it ultimately but i didnt introduce the legislation to create the National Marine sanctuary that protects the area for the future. [applause] thank you so much for being here. I am curious about the response and i wondering how do you strike the balance between that which appears effective in delaying the background for the sustainable. That is a very good question and the reality is when you are implementing the Defense Strategy it has to contain a shortterm and longterm element. The short term element if we arent using isis as an example you have to stop the momentum. That is pushed out of g. You have to stop them. So, the air attacks, whatever it takes you to basically stop the momentum thats going on.