Americans got a rare close-up view of democracy in action last month when the House of Representatives struggled for days to select a new speaker. During that voting period, the public-affairs channel C-SPAN pointed its cameras anywhere it wanted to.
WASHINGTON — Typically, the cameras monitoring the House floor are limited in what they can show, but the rules aren’t set until a Speaker of the House is named
C-SPAN, the public access channel funded by the cable industry that aired coverage of the votes, is asking for continued access“Really, this was a historic occasion,” said Republican Congressman Hal Rogers of Kentucky. “We had never had C-SPAN cameras on the floor of the House during all of that time.”
The cameras allowed Americans to see “the real world as it is, not as you wish it might be,” Rogers said. “The cameras that are showing what happens on the floor of the House of Representatives are tightly controlled by the leadership of the House,” explained Matthew Green with the Department of Politics at Catholic University. “They usually just show either the person who is speaking at the time, or the chair, or whoever’s presiding over the House.
“Usually that vote for speaker happens in one day and once it’s chosen, those cameras are going to stick to the script,” Green said.
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