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President Bush will ask Congress for $87 billion for military and intelligence operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jim Lehrer gets reaction to the president's Sunday night address from two members of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

During an unusual late-summer session, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to campaign finance laws that were put into place in 2002. Jeffrey Brown discusses the case and arguments with Jan Crawford Greenburg, Supreme Court reporter for The Chicago Tribune.

The following is the entire text of President Bush's address to the nation defining Iraq as the "central front" in the global war on terrorism and asking Congress for an additional $87 billion to fund U.S. military operations in Iraq…