Television coverage has impacted politics through the years. Cspan founder, brian lamb, moderated the Panel Discussion with two former u. S. Representative from indiana, steve buyer and tim roemer. Rolealso talked about the of social media and its impact on politics. Good evening. Welcome to the 30th anders bursary anniversary celebration of the cspan archives. I am robert browning, the director of the archives. Ago this month that we turned on the vhs machine. I have to explain what those are. Noise as theyt of rewound. We round it is all digital recording. Was to indexgoal it and make it available for public use. Fun 30 years later to look at how those goals have been met which is what our panel is about. Back then, the internet did not exist. Digital recording was unknown. The cloud was something you watched in the sky. Vision a vision of what could be if we kept this material not knowing how it would be used and we are creating the future of american democracy the history of americ
Quorum call mr. Wyden mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from oregon. Mr. Wyden i ask unanimous consent to vacate the quorum call, mr. President. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Wyden mr. President , i met this fall with dreamers in my home state of oregon, in meetings in eugene and portland. These young people described powerful accounts of how the Trump Administration has needlessly and cruelly injected fear into their lives and the lives of their families. Right now these dreamers, these young people whove done nothing wrong, with terrific grades and wonderful conduct, and helping their families, theyre faced with a very real threat that they may be ripped away from the only lives and the only country theyve ever known. These young people might be little more than numbers on a page to those who spend their days waging political fights in the nations capital, but this is not some kind of academic topic for the thousands of young people across the land who
The cloud was something you watched in the sky. But we had a vision a vision of what could be if we kept this material not knowing how it would be used and we are creating the future of american democracy the history of american democracy. Before i turn this over to Mitch Daniels for some words, we will look at a video because that is what we do. Look at kind of a fun some of our panelists tonight. Just give you a warning. [video clip] we have a resolution that we put forward. Roses are red. Violets are blue. If we are not home by 7 00, we are in deep we encourage the gentleman to give us some definitive time on tuesday night. I appreciate the sentiment. How would you define your ideology . Is it more liberal, moderate, or conservative . I appreciate that. I am fiscally conservative but on social issues, i am moderate. I guess what you could say what that means is i have great reverence for the past and the sacrifices of many but i also have a piece of liberal in me. What a piece of li
Good evening. Welcome to the 30th anniversary celebration of the cspan archives. I am Robert Browning, the director of the archives. It was 30 years ago this month that we turned on the vhs machine. [laughter] robert i have to explain what those are. They made a lot of noise as they wound and rewound. It is all digital recording. Today, it is all digital recording. Our original goal was to record everything on cspan, index it and make it available for public use. It is fun 30 years later to look at how those goals have been met , which is what our panel is about. Back then, the internet as we know it today did not exist. Digital recording was unknown. The cloud was something you watched in the sky. But we had a vision, a vision of what could be if we kept this material, not knowing how it would be used and we are creating the future of american democracy, the history of american democracy. Before i turn this over to mitch daniels, were going to look at a little video. That is what we d
Of social media and its impact on politics. Good evening. Welcome to the 30th anniversary celebration of the cspan archives. I am Robert Browning, the director of the archives. It was 30 years ago this month that we turned on the vhs machine. [laughter] robert i have to explain what those are. They made a lot of noise as they wound and rewound. It is all digital recording. Today, it is all digital recording. Our original goal was to record everything on cspan, index it and make it available for public use. It is fun 30 years later to look at how those goals have been met , which is what our panel is about. Back then, the internet as we know it today did not exist. Digital recording was unknown. The cloud was something you watched in the sky. But we had a vision, a vision of what could be if we kept this material, not knowing how it would be used and we are creating the future of american democracy, the history of american democracy. Before i turn this over to mitch daniels, were going