February 5, 2011 Seizing on Republicans' calls for more transparency in the health-care debate, C-SPAN in November asked presumptive incoming Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) if it could bring cameras onto the House floor. The response has just come back: Sorry, but no.
"I believe the American people - and the dignity and decorum of the United States House of Representatives - are best served by the current system of televised proceedings provided by the House Recording Studio," Boehner wrote to C-SPAN Chairman Brian Lamb.
C-SPAN has been making similar requests since 1994. It seems unlikely to succeed anytime soon.
Fighting over camera angles goes back to 1984.
C-SPAN broadcasts the video feed from the House, but it doesn't get to bring in its camera equipment, which means it has no control over what is shown.
In 1984, members of the Conservative Opportunity Society, a group of aggressive young House Republicans led by Newt Gingrich (Ga.), had begun using C-SPAN-televised floor speeches to get their message out to the public. . . .
Gaetz’s amendment requires the speaker of the House to allow a minimum of four cameras owned and operated by C-SPAN to broadcast and record the floor proceedings of the House.
Gaetz’s amendment requires the speaker of the House to allow a minimum of four cameras owned and operated by C-SPAN to broadcast and record the floor proceedings of the House.
>February 5, 2011
Seizing on Republicans' calls for more transparency in the health-care debate, C-SPAN in November asked presumptive incoming Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) if it could bring cameras onto the House floor. The response has just come back: Sorry, but no.
>"I believe the American people - and the dignity and decorum of the United States House of Representatives - are best served by the current system of televised proceedings provided by the House Recording Studio," Boehner wrote to C-SPAN Chairman Brian Lamb.
>C-SPAN has been making similar requests since 1994. It seems unlikely to succeed anytime soon.
>Fighting over camera angles goes back to 1984.
>C-SPAN broadcasts the video feed from the House, but it doesn't get to bring in its camera equipment, which means it has no control over what is shown.
>In 1984, members of the Conservative Opportunity Society, a group of aggressive young House Republicans led by Newt Gingrich (Ga.), had begun using C-SPAN-televised floor speeches to get their message out to the public.
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