Litigation, i checked with the town clerk to see if they were still doing this, and they invited me back. Reporter the lower court found that of more than 130 prayers offered, only four had been offered by nonchristians. The impact of all this is unclear, given that hardly anyone ever shows up at these board meetings. The number of spectators rarely exceeds the number of board members. The most consistent spectator may be susan galloway, who for years has shown up with her video camera to document the proceedings. Attorney khan took the unusual step of including links to galloways video in the electronic version of the brief she filed with the court, allowing the justices to instantly view what the lower court found to be an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion. Father Alex Bradshaw from our mother of Sorrows Church will say our prayer for this evening. Father bradshaw. Reporter father Alex Bradshaw is typical. We acknowledge the saving sacrifice of jesus christ on the c
Indirectly, it does. It was because i heard about the litigation, i checked with the town clerk to see if they were still doing this, and they invited me back. Reporter the lower court found that of more than 130 prayers offered, only four had been offered by nonchristians. The impact of all this is unclear, given that hardly anyone ever shows up at these board meetings. The number of spectators rarely exceeds the number of board members. The most consistent spectator may be susan galloway, who for years has shown up with her video camera to document the proceedings. Attorney khan took the unusual step of including links to galloways video in the electronic version of the brief she filed with the court, allowing the justices to instantly view what the lower court found to be an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion. Father Alex Bradshaw from our mother of Sorrows Church will say our prayer for this evening. Father bradshaw. Reporter father Alex Bradshaw is typical. We ack
Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions brown after talks between president obama and Congressional Republicans stall, the house moves toward a vote on Speaker Boehners planb for limited tax increases. Good evening, im jeffrey brown. Suarez and im ray suarez. On the newshour tonight, we sort through the state of play and the latest political maneuvering with congress watcher Norman Ornstein and Political Editor christina bellantoni. Brown then we look at the suspension of the u. N. s Polio Eradication Campaign in pakistan, after the killings of nine aid workers. Suarez from capitol hill, ame lman repor on two congressional hearings today where state Department Officials accepted blame in failing to protect the u. S. Diplomatic mission in libya. We have to do better. We owe it to our colleagues who lost their lives in benghazi. We owe it to the Security Professionals who acted with such extraordinary heroism that awful night to try to protect them, and we owe it to thousands
Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions brown after talks between president obama and Congressional Republicans stall, the house moves toward a vote on Speaker Boehners planb for limited tax increases. Good evening, im jeffrey brown. Suarez and im ray suarez. On the newshour tonight, we sort through the state of play and the latest political maneuvering with congress watcher Norman Ornstein and Political Editor christina bellantoni. Brown then we look at the suspension of the u. N. s Polio Eradication Campaign in pakistan, after the killings of nine aid workers. Suarez from capitol hill, kwame holman reports on two congressional hearings today where state Department Officials accepted blame in failing to protect the u. S. Diplomatic mission in libya. We have to do better. We owe it to our colleagues who lost their lives in benghazi. We owe it to the security professnals who acted with such extraordinary heroism that awful night to try to protect them, and we owe it to thousa
Under us. Absolutely indefensible. Absurd. Absolutely absurd. Shame on you, mr. Speaker. Reporter the failure to even vote on the 60 billion bill prompted an outburst from new jersey governor, chris christie. 66 days and counting. Shame on you. Shame on congress. Reporter his wrath aimed squarely at Republican Leaders in congress. They forget, we sent them there. We sent them there to do the work for us. Not to sit down there and play with each other. Reporter all that sound and fury apparently paid off. Late wednesday, the speaker of the house said that aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy would be the First Priority of the new congress to get sworn in on thursday. The first vote for sandy victims coming on friday. Jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. Our thanks to jonathan. So, the speaker conceding to pressure over sandy aid. But hes taking a stand on another issue. The hill newspaper reports that boehner is promising to end any further oneonone talks with the president , reported