"[I will be] ...bringing all parties together, and broadcast those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are."
~ Barack Obama, January, 2008
Yesterday, a letter written by Brian Lamb, CEO of C-Span was published, seeking the fulfillment of President Obama's promise. It was sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.):
"As your respective chambers work to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate health care bills, C-SPAN requests that you open all important negotiations, including any conference committee meetings, to electronic media coverage.The C-SPAN networks will commit the necessary resources to covering all of these sessions LIVE and in their entirety. We will also, as we willingly do each day, provide C-SPAN's multi-camera coverage to any interested member of the Capitol Hill broadcast pool.
...We respectfully request that you allow the public full access, through television, to legislation that will affect the lives of every single American."Amen! Whose government is it, anyhow!! No reponse as yet from Nancy and Harry.
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