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During the hearings, the Republican members of Congress demonstrated their utter lack of understanding of social conditions in our country. Many argued that CPB was redundant, that quality news and educational programs can be found elsewhere on CNN, C-SPAN, Nickelodian, and the Discovery Channel...
...House Newt Gingrich, who last week spoke at a Washington conference called Democracy in Virtual America, is trying to move Congress toward a "virtual Congress." He envisions a House committee holding "a hearing in five cities by television while the actual committee is sitting here." He's also letting C-SPAN's cameras, the electorate's virtual eyeballs, peer into more congressional hearings. And under a new program called "Thomas," after Thomas Jefferson, all House documents are being put on the Internet for mass perusal by modem. Thomas, says Gingrich, will shift power "toward the citizens out of the Beltway...
...stations. With Federal Communications Committee approval, messages requesting patrons to lobby Washington for continued financial support are being aired across the country. Subcommittee Republicans contend that it is illegal to use government money to influence congressional legislation.BTW: The hearing will be broadcast this weekend on National Public Radio and C-SPAN...
...anybody, anywhere watch C-SPAN on New Year's Eve? (Maybe Joshua Steiner didn't have a date ...) Here's what hundreds of millions of us missed...
...story goes, the 54-year-old former economics professor entered politics after watching C-Span one night and remarking to his wife, "Honey, these people sound like a bunch of darn fools." "Yeah," she replied. "You could do that." After winning his suburban Dallas district in an upset, he proved her right by spending his debut months in Washington dramatizing his frugality by camping on a cot in the House gymnasium. Evicted by then Speaker Tip O'Neill, he reluctantly retreated to a sofa in his office and later to a house in Maryland...