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...June 1, after a month of closed-circuit viewing on Capitol Hill, the Senate will permit four rip-roaring weeks of legislative action to be televised on c-span, the cable network that already brings the House to some 23 million homes. Then on July 29, the chamber will vote on whether cameras, lights and mikes should become permanent fixtures of "the world's greatest deliberative body...
...televise or not to televise has been a controversial question. The Senate killed three previous attempts, in 1981, 1982 and 1984, to allow video coverage. Those opposed to cameras in the chamber feared that exposure would forever alter the leisurely, idiosyncratic, old-boy nature of the Senate, which allows unlimited debate and endless quorum calls, and that the public would not understand or approve the legislators' arcane customs. "Unlimited debate," said Louisiana Democrat J. Bennett Johnston, "is not a pretty thing to watch on television . . . It is a messy, untidy spectacle to watch, but I think it is vital...
...main effect of television in the House, says Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, a former Congressman, has been to make legislators more careful about their performances and floor speeches. The Senate, moreover, did not exactly throw itself open to video verite: the new rules preclude camera panning of the chamber to show empty seats or drowsing Senators...
Botha made his announcements to a packed parliamentary chamber in the country's legislative capital...
...recognition of the years of public service by Mayor Walter J. Sullivan's family, the city council last night renamed the city council chamber in honor of the city's best known political dynasty...