Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) describes what he would tell a new Senator. This excerpt is from a Nov. 2005 interview C-SPAN conducted for the 2006 documentary The Capitol. On 11/18/09 Sen. Byrd becomes the longest-serving member of Congress. ... "Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV)" "US Senate" "The Capitol Docume...
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Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) explains why he would change his vote on the 1964 civil rights laws. This excerpt is from a Nov. 2005 interview C-SPAN conducted for the 2006 documentary The Capitol. On 11/18/09 Sen. Byrd becomes the longest-serving member of Congress. ... "Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV)" "US Se...
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Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) describes "the great men and women" who have served in the Senate. This excerpt is from a Nov. 2005 interview C-SPAN conducted for the 2006 documentary The Capitol. On 11/18/09 Sen. Byrd becomes the longest-serving member of Congress. ... "Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV)" "US Sena...
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Following a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing in which Attorney General Holder defended his decision to try 5 suspected 9/11 terrorists in federal court in New York, he spoke briefly with a family member of a victim who had attended the hearing. www.c-spanarchives.org
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On "The Communicators", a discussion with Richard "Rick" Cotton, General Counsel for NBC Universal. He discussed several issues of concern to broadcasters, including copyright protection of broadcast material and domestic and international piracy of content, media ownership rules and net neutral...
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Melvin Urofsky, whose latest book is a biography of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, was our guest on Q&A. The author is a visiting professor of history at American University. Before that he taught at Virginia Commonwealth University since 1974. He is the author or editor of 52 books. ... ...
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Senator Arlen Specter introduced a sense of the Senate resolution to urge the Supreme Court to allow live television coverage of oral arguments before the court. www.c-spanarchives.org ... C-SPAN court cameras
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Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN), ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, gives his assessment of Afghanistan President Karzai. Excerpted from the Nov. 1, 2009 "Newsmakers" on C-SPAN. ... commentary analysis cspan C-SPAN c-span Afghanistan Karzai Lugar Newsmakers
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This week on the Communicators, a discussion with Joe Uva, President and CEO of Univision on the business and policy issues facing the Spanish language network. ... C-SPAN "The Communicators" "Joe Uva" Univision
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This week on Q&A, our guest is Ken Auletta, bestselling author whose newest book "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It" will be published by Penguin next week. The book is a biography of the company Google. It tells the story of the company’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and the ma...
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Representative Foxx spoke about the Democratic health care proposal, saying "we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country." www.c-spanarchives.org ... C-SPAN
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