C-Span Wants More Access From Congress

C-SPAN WANTS MORE ACCESS FROM CONGRESS
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
In a letter to incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), C-SPAN Chairman Brian Lamb asks the new Congress to let the cable network run its own House floor coverage and to release House vote tallies more quickly after the voting has closed. C-SPAN was not able to convince the Republican-controlled Congress to grant either request. The House Speaker controls the camera -- a rule that is part of the nearly 30-year-old deal that convinced the long-resistant legislature to allow the cameras in the first place. Lamb argues that the Speaker's control has become an anachronism that "does a disservice to the institution and to the public."
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