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The US Supreme Court: Free Speech and Money in Politics
From Tea Partiers on the Right to MoveOn.org on the Left, Americans are losing confidence in Washington. Is public policy for sale in Congress? Has the Supreme Court made things worse by taking the limits off campaign spending by special interests? Also, it's down to the wire on the healthcare bill, and the Pope and sex scandals in the Roman Catholic Church.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenFrom Tea Partiers on the Right to MoveOn.org on the Left, Americans are losing confidence in Washington. Is public policy for sale in Congress? Has the Supreme Court made things worse by taking the limits off campaign spending by special interests? Also, it's down to the wire on the healthcare bill. On Reporter's Notebook, allegations of child-abuse by priests all over Europe have rocked the Vatican. We hear what Pope Benedict XVI might be planning to say tomorrow.
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3 storiesDown to the Wire on the Healthcare Bill
With Congress set to vote on healthcare reform this Sunday, vote counting is underway in earnest on Capitol Hill. Having postponed his trip to Asia, the President is back on the campaign trail. Today speaking to students at George Mason University in Northern Virginia, the President emphasized that he still believes " we can do what's right ."
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The US Supreme Court has taken the limits off campaign spending by corporations and unions. Has that liberated a major cause of corruption? Critics say public policy is for sale in Congress, and that unlimited special-interest spending will make things worse for both Liberals and Conservatives.
Read the story37 minGrowing Pedophile Scandal Rocks Catholic Church in Europe
Revelations of child-abuse and cover-ups by Roman Catholic clergy are causing outrage in the Netherlands, in Austria and in Germany, where Pope Benedict XVI was Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger. The rash of sex scandals has the Vatican defending the Pope himself, and he's promised a pastoral letter of healing tomorrow.
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