Looks back on his 20 years in congress. Served in thet house of representatives as a republican representative from florida, and he is the author of the book life in the marble palace. This is Cliff Stearns. Good morning. Guest thank you for having me. Good morning. Host what was the goal of the book . Guest the goal of the book was to show some of the flaws of democracy, the positive things in democracy, and during the Tumultuous Times i served there was so much that occurred that showed the weakness of what we were doing. My book was talking about how can we improve democracy and also remind people of the great history of western civilization and what we have in this country, and try to move forward to a rebirth of democracy. Host im interested in your thoughts on the title. Follybtitle in praise of , what are you trying to accomplish their . Guest a restless wrote a book in in pursuit of folly, highly political, but it was moving toward the protestant reformation, and talking about
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
To show some of the flaws of democracy, the positive things in democracy, and during the Tumultuous Times i served there was so much that occurred that showed the weakness of what we are doing. My book was talking about how can we improve democracy and also remind people of the great history of western civilization and what we have in this country, and try to move forward to a rebirth of democracy. Host im interested in your thoughts on the title what are you trying to a couple should . Guest a restless wrote a book folly,n pursuit of highly political, but it was moving toward the protestant reformation, and talking about how much reform was needed. I use that title as a backdrop to really show how important it is to reform and change the way we do things in d. C. Onef there were 1 major step congress could take to reform, what could it be . Guest we should have a balanced budget every year. He saw recently we had a continuing resolution that moved us from september 2 december, and now
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
Plans to remember that event today. On this anniversary, a debate about gun violence and what to do about it. Were interested in hearing from you. How to best reduce acts of gun violence. If you are a gun owner. If you do not own a gun, 2027488001. If you want to put your thoughts on how the best way to reduce gun violence can occur, you can put those thoughts on facebook and twitter. Patch talks about the remembrances that will take place in sandy hook today. It has been for years since the gunman took the lives of those 20 innocent children. Four years. Today, the town will hold a somber, silent reminder for 15 minutes, the time the shootings took place. The superintendent said that the will bees of silence for Department Staff and the schools themselves. Abc news looks at the efforts made by the Obama Administration since that shooting at sandy hook. Mr. Obama has made little federal progress towards what he repeatedly described as common law. The outgoing president has knowledge on