C-SPAN to Cover Financial Reform Conference's Open Sessions

[Cate Long]

The public service cable network C-SPAN has agreed to provide coverage
of all open sessions, which include opening day, of the House and
Senate conference debate on financial services reform legislation,
which begins Thursday, June 10.

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts), chairman of the House Financial
Services Committee, has been urging the public service cable network
to televise the House and Senate conference meetings as they reconcile
their bills on Wall Street reform. In a June 8 letter to Brian Lamb,
CEO of C-Span, Frank thanked the network for agreeing to televise the
opening day of the conference debate, but urged the cable network to
“provide the necessary resources to ensure that the American people
are able to watch the public portions and the voting of the Conference
Committee. I believe it is vital that after the financial crisis of
2008, the American people are able to view the public proceedings.”

Howard Mortman, communications director at C-SPAN, told Investment
Advisor that C-SPAN had committed to send cameras, but not necessarily
broadcast on its networks, all open sessions of the conference
committee and would stream the sessions “live at C-SPAN.org, and be
available for on-demand viewing at the C-SPAN video library (c-
span.org/videolibrary).”

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