The current system fails to provide reliable justice.

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A similar
bill has been introduced in the House by U.
* Scores of the nation's most prominent leaders in health care and the
law have called for the creation of special health courts , including
university presidents, medical school deans, former high-ranking
government officials from both political parties, and current or
former heads of healthcare policy, healthcare quality or patient
safety organizations. The time has come to put the
public interest ahead of special interests.

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To speak with Philip K. The new standard goes into effect immediately and will be used
at TI's 2006 Annual Meeting of Stockholders on April 20 .
TI's bylaws and corporate governance guidelines are available at
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Perhaps it is not surprising, since 60 percent of the cost of
the current medical malpractice system goes to lawyers and court costs. Senate Majority
Leader Bill Frist and by the Progressive Policy Institute, a major
Democratic think tank.org.org.com .

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America has a long history of turning to special courts in areas
requiring specific expertise -- Admiralty courts, bankruptcy courts, tax
courts and administrative tribunals in areas ranging from workers
compensation to vaccine liability.
* Hearings in the U.)
* Joining Common Good in advocating the creation of pilot projects for
health courts are such leading organizations as, among others, the
American Association of Retired Persons, the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Association of Family
Practitioners, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the
state medical societies in Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey , New
York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
* Editorial support from major news publications includes, among others,
an editorial in USA Today stating that "health courts could show the
way for quicker and fairer compensation to the deserving.

TI Board Adopts Majority Voting for Director Elections

ti. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.

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(A list is available at http://www.
"I am going to explain three steps to make acquisition more
effective, and I will explain what worked and what didn't work from
the corporate experience of the Shaw Group," he tells Defense Today.
Badolato served under former Presidents Reagan and Bush as deputy
assistant secretary of the Department of Energy, focusing on
counter-terrorism and emergency planning. Thompson (D-Miss.

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Healthcare is in trouble, and the choices needed to fix it can't be made
without a reliable foundation of law. "This change
reflects the Board's commitment to continually strengthen the corporate
governance principles that guide Texas Instruments.

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The nearly universal distrust of medical justice
drives up costs -- tens of billions of dollars are spent in defensive
medicine -- and drives down quality, chilling the open professional
interaction needed for effective health care.S. Senate are expected shortly on legislation
introduced by Senators Mike Enzi (R-WY) and Max Baucus (D-MT) to
authorize special health courts on a pilot project basis.
The Chair of Common Good is Philip K. TI is headquartered in
Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing , design or sales operations in more than
25 countries.

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It is disappointing that the ABA would oppose this consumer-oriented
reform.

* The concept of health courts has been endorsed by U. Its board is composed of leaders in a wide range
of fields: former government officials, including Howard Baker, Bill Bradley,
Griffin Bell, Newt Gingrich, Eric Holder, George McGovern, Diane Ravitch, Alan
Simpson, and Richard Thornburgh; current and former university presidents ,
including Tom Kean, William Brody, George Rupp, and John Silber; and numerous
other leaders in education, health care, law, business, and public policy. Howard, a lawyer and author of The Death
of Common Sense and The Collapse of the Common Good. More information is located on the World Wide Web at
http://www.

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Senate to authorize pilot projects for special health courts,
which are being developed by a joint venture of Common Good and the
Harvard School of Public Health with funding from The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation.

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The concept of special health courts has gained rare bipartisan support
and growing endorsements from virtually all constituencies which have a
legitimate interest in restoring the health of American health care.

Common Good is a bipartisan legal reform coalition dedicated to restoring
common sense to American law."
The prior plurality standard provided that directors with the most votes
cast for them be elected, even if the total votes cast were less than a
majority.

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Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the
symbol TXN.

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Common Good Responds to ABA Resolution Opposing Special Health Courts

S. DALLAS, The Board of Directors of Texas
Instruments Incorporated (NYSE: TXN) (TI) has amended the company's bylaws to
require directors to receive a majority of votes cast in order to be elected
to the Board. "We believe our stockholders should have a stronger voice in the
election of their directors," said TI Chairman Tom Engibous. In addition, Badolato is an
internationally recognized expert in the field of energy and
environmental operations, contingency planning and emergency response.
For more information please visit
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More money now goes to lawyers' fees than to patients who have been
harmed by medical malpractice.ti.) USMC Ed
Badolato, under consideration by the White House to replace recently
departed DHS Assistant Secretary Robert Liscouski , will speak at
Defense Today's "Contracting for Homeland Security III: Requirements
and Acquisition Strategies," March 16-17, at the Washington Convention
Center.), Ranking Member, House Committee on
Homeland Security, each of whom will address the new budget and
funding priorities; Elaine Duke, Deputy Chief Procurement Officer at
DHS; Jeff David, deputy director for the Technical Support Working
Group's Combating Terrorism Technology Support Office; Kei Koizumi,
Director of the R +D Budget and Policy Program at the American
Association for the Advancement of Science; Peter Miller , Project
Manager at Homeland Security Advanced Projects Agency; Ray Biagini, a
national expert on the SAFETY Act; Bruce Walker, Sector Director for
Homeland Security at Northrop Grumman, Paul Clark, Vice President for
Homeland Security, BAE Systems; Michael Bopp, Staff Director and Chief
Counsel to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs; Jessica Herrera , Democratic Deputy Staff Director and Chief
Counsel of the House Committee on Homeland Security; and Chris Stahl,
president and CEO of MAPROI Systems, Inc.

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He is a retired Marine Corps colonel with three combat tours in Viet
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Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog
technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements. Badolato , Executive Vice President for Homeland Security for
the Shaw Group, a Fortune 500 Corporation, will talk about "the
essential differences between the acquisition process at the
Department of Homeland Security as opposed to the Department of
Defense," he says. To register, contact Melissa Monk
at King Publishing, 202-662-9732, mmonk@kingpublishing.

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NEW YORK, Common Good, the bipartisan legal reform
coalition, issued the following statement today in response to the resolution
adopted on Monday by the American Bar Association opposing the creation of
special health courts:

The American Bar Association this week adopted -- against the
recommendation of its Health Law Committee -- a resolution opposing the
creation of special health courts.S.

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cgood.com/corporategovernance .

Business Editors/Defense Writers
Contracting for Homeland Security III: Requirements and
Acquisition Strategies

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This puts the ABA in conflict with a
broad coalition of patient advocates, consumer groups, and think tanks
that are calling for pilot projects of special health courts to begin to
restore reliability to medical justice. Howard , Chair of Common Good, about this issue or
for additional information, please contact Danielle Rhoades or Allison Aldrich
at (212) 576-2700 or visit http://www.
The new standard provides for greater accountability of directors to
shareowners.
In addition to Semiconductor, the company's businesses include Sensors +
Controls and Educational + Productivity Solutions.

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Most patients who
are harmed by medical errors get no compensation at all; doctors who did
nothing wrong, especially in circumstances of human tragedy, are often
hit with huge verdicts; and there is no standard of care that doctors or
patients can rely upon. Rep. In the company's history, no director of TI has ever received less
than a majority of the votes cast.
Other confirmed speakers include Rep.kingpublishing.