Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I do appreciate this bill, and the only question I sometimes have is that it seems like email has been around for a long time, and we are just getting to it, but better later than never. But I also think it is really important to recognize a lot of these cases are public defense cases. You will have public defenders who have bigger caseloads than we would like sometimes and clients that don't necessarily trust the system. This is good for defendants. This is good for lawyers. This is good for overall faith in the criminal justice system. It protects people, and it doesn't just protect the client who that public defender is recognizing. It helps all of his other clients if he or she can communicate with all of their clients quicker and more efficiently. This is a really good bill. I urge everybody to support it, and I yield back the balance of my time.”