was the law that allowed death row inmates, the racial justice act, was rolled back. tell us what that law was. well, the racial justice act was in effort to help those people who were on death row to challenge the sentencing that they received based on prosecutorial misconduct, which occurred many times, or some discrimination in the selection of jurors. and it was a nar minded deal that we worked on for years to achieve and we finally got it. it began the implementation phase and cases were heard in court where we were able to demonstrate there was widespread prosecutorial conduct in several cases there. there had been discrimination in the selection of jurors. and those inmates who were involved had their sentences reduced to life.
confident conservatives are behind it. wonder where the consciences will be behind it, i wonder where the public will be. the implementation will start happening in the next year. we say implementation we re talking about setting up these health insurance exchanges, people who don t have insurance, aren t covered through their employers will get it through these exchanges and sara, jonathan comb who covers health care wrote about this implementation phase. his assessment was it s not is going to work as well as many of us would like in the initial adjustment may not be easy. this will be rougher even if it s good in the end rougher than we expect. that s a fair assessment. so we were talking about how we ve seen the president in a is this in a lot of ways a news conference last week said there will be bumps in the road. political question, and it strikes me the last time there when you talk about the task, was a presidential candidate who signing 30 million people up for ran who
way we know what is going on is when we wake up in the part of the next month and find out what happened. the fact that we have to pivot. we had a brutal job weak for a number of years even going job situation for a number of years even going back before this president s administration. the fact that we have to pivot. and thirdly we wouldn t have have the healthcare problems if people had jobs and could afford insurance. all this goes back to jobs and it is like who s on first with it. after every recession after every recession you do have a natural recovery but this recovery has been the slowest one. the american economy has been stuck in first greer for the last three years cash there is a reason for that as well. it is not rocket science. we know from employers especially small business owners they are unsure of what is going to happen to the business when it comes to obamacare. the implementation phase of obama care was going to be the toughest part as it is formy big govern
way we know what is going on is when we wake up in the part of the next month and find out what happened. the fact that we have to pivot. we had a brutal job weak for a number of years even going job situation for a number of years even going back before this president s administration. the fact that we have to pivot. and thirdly we wouldn t have have the healthcare problems if people had jobs and could afford insurance. all this goes back to jobs and it is like who s on first with it. after every recession after every recession you do have a natural recovery but this recovery has been the slowest one. the american economy has been stuck in first greer for the last three years cash there is a reason for that as well. it is not rocket science. we know from employers especially small business owners they are unsure of what is going to happen to the business when it comes to obamacare. the implementation phase of obama care was going to be the toughest part as it is formy big govern
themselves are members of can congress. as cynthia would tell you, president, don t blame you from wanting to get away from us, congress, i would too. unfortunately for the president this is a short get away. when he returns to washington, he will face his watered down gun control bill and a battle with house republicans and some democrats too, maybe. in the guess spot today is congressman peter welch. he is from the great state of vermont. congressman, i guess i want it start with the issue of the sequester. the thing that was never supposed to happen and is being implemented as we speak. politically speaking, sort of of the gamble here that president obama and your party seem to be making was that threat of the sequester would be a deterrent to get republicans to the table. that didn t happen. but if we went into the implementation phase, the pain would be so widespread around the country there would be an outcry and pressure, public