Years ago this month, and the occasion was the first day of permanent television of the United States senate. We are going to use the opportunity of the 30th anniversary to look back at the senate and how it is changed in the era of television. We have two guests that have been with the senate for 40 years and their careers there, theretired, and they span age of the television before senate and after, so they are ideally suited to help us understand how the institution adapted to the coming of Television Cameras. Let me introduce them to you. Alan frumin is a Senate Parliamentarian emeritus, and as i mentioned he spent 40 years in , the Parliamentarian Office rising to the chief parliamentarian position. Thank you for being with us. Mr. Frumin i am delighted to be here. Don ritchie has set down at our table many times. Historian emeritus, again, 40 years in the United States senate and served as the chief to 2016 androm 2009 has written a number of books. Nice to see you and thank you
Today is a historic occasion. The proceedings of the United States senate are being broadcast to the nation on television for the first time, not that we have operated in secret until now. Millions of americans have set in the galleries and observed Senate Debates during their visits to washington. But today, they can witness the proceedings in their own homes. We might say that the nation is tuning in late. Woodrow wilson said that the informing function of congress should be preferred to its legislative function. Today, as the u. S. Senate comes out of the communications dark ages, we create another historic moment in the relationship between congress and Technological Advancement in communications through radio and television. That was june 2, 1986, 30 years ago this month, and the occasion was the first day of permanent television of the United States senate. We are going to use the opportunity of the 30th anniversary to look back at the senate and how it is changed in the era of t
Helped shepherd the change senators were not appointed by the legislatures that demanded elections. If it was the first, but the idea that it was not going to be the party bosses who made the decision of who the nominees were in smokefilled back rooms, but rather the people who are going to get a chance to vote in free and fair elections. Sunday night on cspans q and a. The phone lines are open. Rld trade bridge. We were down in lore raid dough april talking to u. S. Customs and Border Protection and other images pturing the youre seeing on your screen now of the world trade tpwreupblg. Screen are on your heading southbound into mexico. They are weighed and then tolled and the money that they get from lore goes to the city of raid dough. The city owning this international bridge, the world bridge, the fourth in the city of lore raid dough and the tolls goes et from into the city to pay for a variety of things. Bit about this port, the number one inland port along the u. S. Mexico borde
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Diverted at milbrae. People should stay in their vehicle. Well stay on top of our story and throughout the newscast. Other news now, this first week of classes have ended uncomfortably for two children. Kron 4 news standing by from palo pinto now with details. Reporter pam, you hear it all the time that children should travel in pairs and that their strength in numbers will do what police say were going on yesterday with these two kids. That did not stop the man from making his approach. Word is quickly spreading. I feel worried. That a stranger maybe lurking around jordan middle school. Theyre all around, not sitting well with parents in the community when your kids is this this school. After school hours, children still frequent the area. You see kids walking home. Thursday night, all the more troubling. At around 5 45 evening, police say a caution man in his late 20s or 40s pulled up the two twelveyearolds a boy and a girl as they massed down middle field school. They ignored him an