As a lifelong Democrat, it pains me to say the best advocate for people with serious mental illness appears to be Representative Tim Murphy, the Republican Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.
First, we can and should demand that the negotiations between Congress and the White House be done in front of C-SPAN cameras. Second, once a "deal" is agreed to, it should be written down in legislative language and put online for every American to read.
Showing reruns in primetime is far more lucrative than convention coverage. But if the three major networks want to avoid rightful challenges to the licenses of its stations, they should accept their mandated responsibility to serve the public interest and not just their bottom line.
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Here are some tips for C-SPAN junkies who might find watching Congress a bit puzzling at times. Clunky opening ceremonies and endless roll calls? It's all here.
An awesomely awkward incident graced the airwaves of C-SPAN 2 earlier this month, when a member of a book panel burned a fellow panelist over a past r...
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So this is what I learned from the last weekend of the health care reform debate. First, lay a coffin at a White House fence and you're subject to arrest.
It's a shame Eric Massa is leaving when he is. Never mind the definite impression he's a wacko, lying sleaze bag; just as Democrats are groping for some way to pass health care reform, he bails, just when his expertise would be useful.
It was awesome, awe-inspiring, amazing, and... boring? In the 24 hours since President Obama sat down with Congress, we've all had time to reflect on ...
You kids can have your Susan Boyle and Adam Lambert. For my money, this season's breakout reality star is Rep. Michele Bachmann. She has turned CSPAN into The Surreal Life.
Those who are arguing that Obama's promise-breaking is acceptable and not newsworthy are deftly presenting their conservative, Establishment-coddling propaganda in the most effective way: As allegedly "progressive."
You are not doing your children any favors by not allowing them to grow up. I'm OK with parents helping children through college (in four years, not forty), but after that they are on their own.
On the day before Christmas, one C-SPAN viewer took their unhappiness with the Senate's newly passed health care legislation to a new, personal, level...
After 10 years, Tavis Smiley is ending his annual State of the Black Union conference, which spawned best-selling books and his critical stance toward...
So far neither President Obama nor the Democratic leadership have indicated if they would allow C-SPAN in and open up the hearings to the traditional conference committee process.
Here's a new and weird mental image to add to the health care debate. On C-SPAN Tuesday morning, in a discussion over whether the Senate health care ...
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs raised eyebrows in the briefing room on Tuesday when he said that the president does not regret his campaign ...
Everywhere you looked Thursday, HuffPost was being mentioned on the tube.
From "Entertainment Tonight" to "Countdown," "Ugly Betty" to "30 Rock," Ja...