Except for the laughable "digntiy and decorum" part, she has a point.
I could see the CSPAN types panning around trying to find a member snoozing, or making a face as Pelosi - or Hastert - speaks.
It would become a circus.
More of a circus, that is.
What is she trying to hide?
They don't really have to pan the crowd to make it a circus...
For some reason, there are groups of Congresscritters that will boo and hiss if they don't like what is being said...you can hear it...even if you don't know who is doing it..
I watch the House quite often...and I haven't ever felt that I haven't seen anything that important.
I WOULD like them to show the votes though..who voted how, on the screen so that we will know at the vote is going on.
In the Senate, we are told who is voting which way...but in the House we have to wait until it is posted on the internet sometimes hours later...
I see your point, but shouldn't coverage be that as if one were actually there, sitting in the public gallery? I say pan away and let the elected reps worry about being on their best behavior.
The part that I find maddening is that we pay for this bunch of posturing, preening, power-hungry predators. They have wonderful salaries, health care, pensions, etc., and it's all at our expense, literally. We must be fools.
Carolyn