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C-SPAN sent the following letter to the Republican Leader Rep. John Boehner requesting in the spirit of transparency that the U.S. House allow floor proceedings to also be televised by C-SPAN cameras.  As it stands now, the cameras in the chamber are owned and operated by Congress.

In January, you sent C-SPAN a letter supporting our request for televised access to the health care negotiations in which you wrote, “Every issue of national import should be debated by the people’s elected representatives in full public view.” You further wrote, “Republicans have listened to the American people and are committed to making Congress more accountable to the people it serves.”

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