Millstein family. Mutual of america, designing customized, individual and Group Retirement plans. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tish wnet studios in new york, arnie sreenivasan. Good evening. We look at the effect of the shutdown on congress. President obama has pressed the republicanled house of representatives to follow the senates lead and pass a Immigration Reform bill. Speaker boehner says Immigration Reform is an important subject that needs to be addressed and said he was, quote, hopeful. This weekend the governor from california became the first republican that said he would sponsor legislation that would give millions of undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship. For more on Immigration Reform this year, were joined by washington from alan gomez. Alan, first question. How significant is this announ
Good evening. Welcome to wqed newsroom. The top political watchdog scored a major win this week and californias fptc announced 1 million fine in a case of Campaign Money laundering. The settlement is against two nonprofits until last years election. The nonprofit and the donors to them thought to exploit loopholes in california disclosure laws. The contributions were intended to help defeat governor browns proposition 30 to raise taxes and pass the antilabor measure proposition 32. They went to court before the november election pushing the group to disclose the true source of the contribution. Shes now headed to washington d. C. To serve as president obamas appointee on the federal election commission. Before thursdays settlement was announced, she spoke with scott shafer about the challenges of informing voters about the flood of money in todays Political Campaign. Welcome to newsroom. Thank you very much. Well, the fair Political Action commission, which you chair, or have chaired,
Made possible by jodi westin, the wallach family, the Sherry Millstein family. Mutual of america, designing customized, individual and Group Retirement plans. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tish wnet studios in new york, arnie sreenivasan. Good evening. We look at the effect of the shutdown on congress. President obama has pressed the republicanled house of representatives to follow the senates lead and pass a Immigration Reform bill. Speaker boehner says Immigration Reform is an important subject that needs to be addressed and said he was, quote, hopeful. This weekend the governor from california became the first republican that said he would sponsor legislation that would give millions of undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship. For more on Immigration Reform this year, were joined by washington from ala