I want to be crystal clear that Speaker Pelosi is not changing anything, C-SPAN has made this request every year for decades:  To have permission to televise all of the House's floor sessions in full, as they do for Joint Sessions and Committee hearings.

But in her new Direction leadership, one might have hoped she would abandon business as usual and opt for full accountability and transparency in the House's procedings.

Pelosi says no to C-SPAN request on floor proceedings

Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi cited the need to preserve the ''dignity and decorum'' of the House as she rejected a request Friday that C-SPAN operate its own cameras in covering the chamber.

The public service network has provided gavel-to-gavel television coverage of House proceedings since 1979. But the House leader has kept control of the cameras, with coverage generally limited to tight shots of the speaker or the podium.

When good kids go bad…

Being a member, I recently got a letter from Evergreen Freedom Foundation President Bob Williams requesting a donation to help them get a $50,000 matching fund.  Yesterday, I sent not a $25, not a $50 but a $60 donation.

Here's why: EFF is taking the good fight to the WEA for bullying teachers, to clean up our elections and to inform the public about the status of our public education system.  EFF staff and members like I also tipped off the media regarding the missing copier debacle in Skagit County - that county gov't tried to defend ineptly in the local newspaper, made a Skagit County blogger's post on Homeland Security Watch and Homeland Stupidity - and the ballot title blunder that helped down I-933.

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