Patt Morrison for Tuesday, 1/12/10

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:06 – 1:30

Goodbye campaign finance reform? Hello big-money in politics

The US Supreme Court is expected to rule this week (possibly tomorrow) on a case that could have monumental ramifications for campaign finance reform and pave the way for unlimited corporate, union, and private money in elections and politics.  The court in Citizens United v. FEC could broaden the definition of free speech to include corporate spending on political candidates.  If they do, big business will be free to spend unlimited sums of money to support, or attack, political candidates without safe-guards to protect against corruption.

 

Guests:

Matt McGill, partner, Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher LLP

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            He was on the legal team that represented Citizens United

 

Scott Nelson, attorney at Public Citizen
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Monica Youn (YUNE), lead attorney for campaign finance reform at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School.

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Bruce Freed, Founder, Center for Political Accountability

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1:30 - 1:58:30

Time to pay the piper? Obama to charge banks fees

How about this for a switch, the US taxpayer charges the banking industry a fee.  Well, not exactly but President Obama is considering imposing a new fee on major banking and financial institutions to help reduce the federal budget deficit and recoup taxpayer bailout money. No details about the plan are out yet but one question comes to mind: how to do it without the banking industry…..you guessed it, passing those fees back on to their customers?

 

Guests:

Robert Bixby, Executive Director, Concord Coalition

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Karen Shaw Petron, Managing Partner, Federal Financial Analytics

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2:06 – 2:19

Refocusing the dollars for stem cell research

When Prop. 71 passed in 2004, mandating the state to invest $3 billion in stem cell research over 10 years, many voters hoped that it would be the groundwork for revolutionary medical discoveries. Now the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the agency created to manage this research, is shifting its focus from long-term therapies to therapies that are much farther along in development and are likely to be used in the near-term to address a variety of ills. What will this change in the way dollars are targeted mean to basic research and long-term results?

 

Guest:

Alan Trounson, President of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

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Arlene Chiu, Director of the Office of New Research Initiatives at the City of Hope

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2:21 – 2:30

OPEN

 

 

2:30 – 2:58:30

Temple Grandin: Animals Make Us Human

Best-selling author of Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin, has used her autism to understand how animals think. Her new book takes us into the brains and hearts of our pets, of wild animals, even the ones we’ll eventually kill and eat.

 

Guest:

Temple Grandin, professor of animal science at Colorado State University; she is the author of Thinking in Pictures, Animals in Translation, and most recently, Animals Make Us Human

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