Until recently, Pennsylvania's U.S. Senators were recommending that former Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno should receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but they pulled their support because of "disturbing questions" about Joe Paterno's knowledge of sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by a former Penn State assistant coach.
"You know, it absolutely broke my heart to have to rescind that recommendation," Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., told Chris Wallace. "But, Chris, it seems to me that there are important and disturbing questions about what coach Paterno knew and when he knew it and what he did with that information."
"And given the uncertainty around those issues," Toomey added, "I couldn't in good conscience continue to recommend that he'd receive the highest award that a civilian can receive in the United States of America."
