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Mark Steyn, author of "America Alone" and other conservative writings, is appearing right now on this month's In-Depth from C-Span2 - program will run to 3:00PM Eastern (with taped repeats tonight) and is live with Steyn discussing his works and answering questions from viewers via email and phone callins.......

I thought Newt just gave a masterful speech, touching on the need to look south and reach out to Central and South America and improve relations and commerce with them, support and encourage democracy and free enterprise. He also highlighted his economic plan and how he wants to encourage entrepreneurship in all communities, including Hispanics. He came out strong in support of using all forms of non military measures to support the rise of freedom in Cuba. He received frequent applause throughout.

Washington, DC Sunday, January 22, 2012 Following up on last night's victory in the South Carolina Primary, Newt Gingrich took viewer calls on this morning's Washington Journal. Gingrich will appear on several news shows before he travels to Florida, which holds the next primary on January 31st..

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Ah, 1995. Bill Clinton was president, Newt Gingrich was the House's feisty new speaker, and Chris Farley was still alive. At this April 5 meeting of the House Republican Conference, John Boehner introduced Gingrich, only to have Farley appear from the wings and present a last-minute agenda to round out the new Republican Congress's first 100 days in power. Saturday Night Live currently has Bobby Moynihan playing Gingrich in its debate spoofs, but there's something about Farley that oddly befits the former speaker. Gingrich fancies himself such a serious intellectual that there's almost no way to parody his persona, only...

HOUSTON — You could call it a debate in the style of America’s most famous series of oratorical confrontations — but only if Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas had addressed each other from comfy, high-backed armchairs. And spectators had been willing to shell out at least $200. Georgia’s two Republican candidates for president, friends who have watched each other’s back during much of the early campaign, will go toe to toe Saturday evening in a two-man debate in the backyard of a third contender, Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

If you are as sick of the sound bite debate format as I am, there is cause to cheer today. C-SPAN has announced that it will televise Saturday night's debate between Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain in Texas. We shall finally have a shot at the longed-for Lincoln-Douglas style extended discussion.

Special Alert for Aug. 4, 2011   Ann Coulter on In Depth Live Sunday, Noon - 3 pm ET, Re-airs Sunday, Midnight ET on C-SPAN2's Book TV     Author and syndicated columnist Ann Coulter  is our guest this Sunday on In Depth, live noon - 3 pm ET on Book TV. The New York Times bestselling author will spend three hours taking viewers' calls, emails, and tweets on topics such as politics, the culture wars, and election 2012, among others. The legal correspondent for Human Events magazine is the author of eight books, including Slander: Liberal Lies about the American Right, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd be Republicans, and her latest, Demonic: How...

Here is the live proceedings of the debate prior to the final floor vote of the Senate of the 112th Congress of the United States of America.

http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/ Here is the live proceedings and current vote count from the House of Representatives of the 112th Congress of the United States of America.

I was just watching the short morning speeches on C-SPAN when liberal Mr. Cohen from NC (I think), was referring to the fact that conservatives are now opposing the raising of the debt ceiling; but they supported same when Bush was president. He referenced the scene in "Blazing Saddles", when the citizens of Rock Ridge were asked by the new black sheriff for just 24 more hours to solve the crisis. Denied. Whereupon Sheriff Bart protested, "You'd do it for Randolph Scott." The citizens then showed reverence at the mention of that name, and capitulated.

(SITE FOR LIVE COVERAGE - EARLIER DEBATE ON NOW) COMPLETE TITLE House Vote Postponed on Debt Ceiling Vote could still happen tonight The vote to pass House Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) debt ceiling bill has been postponed while Boehner meets with his members individually. The vote could still take place this evening. Earlier today, the House passed the rule along party lines (238-186) for House Speaker Boehner’s plan to lift the debt ceiling. Speaker Boehner released a revised version of his proposal Wednesday evening, which cuts $917 billion dollars of spending over ten years.

Fate of Boehner, Reid Debt Limit Plans UnclearBoehner rewriting plan; Reid plan saves $2.2 trillion says CBO Washington, DCWednesday, July 27, 2011 Debate and a vote on House Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) debt reduction legislation was postponed at least one day as the Speaker rewrites his bill.  The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an analysis of his plan. It says it cuts $850 billion over ten years, less than the $1.2 trillion Boehner claimed it would save.  Additionally, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) also postponed debate of his debt ceiling proposal until at least Thursday. Media reports say he is...

At 7:00 p.m. EDT, this photo box will turn into the live feed from the Monday banquets at AIPAC Policy Conference 2011 Monday, May 23, 2011 - 10:00am While Washington, D.C., is increasingly consumed with bickering between Democrats and Republicans, the U.S.-Israel relationship remains the one issue that transcends the partisan divide. In a display of this bipartisan spirit, more than half of Congress will attend tonight's Gala Banquet, which will fill a room large enough to fit the Washington Monument on its side. This year, however, for the first time ever, Hall D/E, as massive as it is, cannot...

Obama birth certificate and constitutional eligibility controversy discussed on C-SPAN TODAY at 10 AM (ET).

Obama and Seth Meyers headline Politics and Hollywood collide again at tonight's annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. The event has evolved into a star-studded affair as celebrities descend upon Washington, joining journalists and President Obama. This year's comedian headliner, Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers, is charged with the task of poking fun at the President and Washington politics. Each year, the President uses the occasion to show a more humorous side as well, making fun of himself and the people who cover him. The purpose of the annual dinner is “to raise money for WHCA scholarships and honor the...

With the presidential field finally starting to coalesce, there’s something of a cattle call in Iowa this weekend: Rep. Steve King’s Conservative Principles Conference, taking place in Des Moines this Saturday. Hundreds of conservative Iowans will come out to hear potential candidates make their pitches. “What I expect and hope for is an engaging discussion for the conservative agenda for America and to help shape the beginnings of the planks in the platform of the next president of the United States,” King told The Fix... The guest list is reminiscent of the one for last month’s Conservative Political Action Conference...

After WordsAfter Words: Peter Firstbrook, "The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family,"hosted by Dinesh D'Souza About the Program BBC historian Peter Firstbrook discusses his explorationof 27 generations of President Obama's Kenyan ancestors withauthor and president of The King's College, Dinesh D'Souza. About the AuthorsPeter Firstbrook Mr. Firstbrook was a BBC producer and director for 25 years, specializing in history and international documentaries. He is also the author of "Lost on Everest."

Former Vice President Dick Cheney will deliver a speech from the Reagan Ranch Center

Via Twitter, C-SPAN has announced that it plans to cablecast both Sarah Palin's keynote address Friday and Dick Cheney's Saturday speech from YAF's Reagan 100 Celebration at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara. - JP

After liberals in the Democratic Caucus forced a several-hour delay on tax-cut legislation, the House approved the rules for debate on the legislation this evening and have now begun three hours of general debate. A final vote on the legislation is expected after midnight. Yesterday, the Senate approved the $858 billion tax plan, by a vote of 81 to 19. The measure (HR 4853), negotiated by President Obama and Senate Republicans, would allow tax cuts for all income levels to continue for two years and extend unemployment insurance benefits for jobless Americans for 13 months.

In promoting its coverage of Saturday’s “One Nation” rally in Washington, D.C., C-SPAN’s website offered visitors a peak at what the rally looked like on the ground along the National Mall. But, as Gateway Pundit points out, the image they use to advertise the “One Nation Working Together” rally is actually a cropped Reuters photo taken on August 28 during the “Restoring Honor” rally hosted by Glenn Beck, seen here:

CSPAN is airing the leftist “One Socialist Nation” rally today in Washington DC. Unfortunately, they didn’t have a good crowd shot of the turnout… So they used a photo from a Glenn Beck tea party rally. Notice the Gadsden flags in the background. Hat Tip EdThis is despite the fact that thousands of supporters were given free rides by unions and the NAACP to the rally. The actual crowd is a little sparse at the One Nation rally today.Despite the free rides and T-shirts the leftists just couldn’t match this crowd.This photo is from the Glenn Beck rally last month.

Governors Focus on The Federal Budget DeficitToday With the National Governors Association (NGA) wrapping up its three-day meeting in Boston today, PoliticsDaily.com Senior Correspondent Jill Lawrence joins the Washington Journal live from Boston to review the conference and discuss the 2010 elections. Today’s closing NGA plenary session focuses on “The Federal Budget Deficit: Risks and Challenges." The panel will hear from former Senator Alan K. Simpson (R-WY) and former Clinton White House Chief of Staff and Senate candidate Erskine B. Bowles (D-NC), co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, who will provide their insight into the monetary...

C-Span will repeat today's Q&A on the new documentary "The Lottery", with Brian interviewing Medeleine Sackler, the producer-director, starting at 11:00 EDT. Sackler set out to follow the attempts of four youngsters in Harlem to gain admission to charter schools, where their parents believed they would receive better education than in the regular public school system. Charter schools are partially supported by public funds, but also by private money, and accordingly are not forced to operate under many of the restrictions facing the public system, including especially unionized teachers. Thus the charters face considerable resistance from the community, fostered by...

Rep. Cassidy gives his views on the response of the Obama Administration and Congress to the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, his opposition to a moratorium on deepwater energy and oil drilling, and the spill's effect on the health, safety and livelihood of Gulf Coast residents. Rep. Cassidy practices internal medicine and gastroenterology when he is in the Baton Rouge area. About 37 minutes, informative.

C-SPAN seems to be the outlet of choice for callers who want to share their extreme opinions with the rest of the world. This morning, a caller stated he agreed with Helen Thomas, whose controversial remarks about Jews and Palestine last week caused her to announce her retirement today.The caller said Thomas’ comments were “spot on.” Thomas has been under fire since she suggested Jews should leave Israel and “go home” to Germany and Poland. The caller also said the Jews were “immigrants coming from Europe who were kicked out mainly because of diseases and homosexuality that were spreading.” He...

I was checking out the C-SPAN website a few moments ago and low and behold they have a picture of Obama from the BP Oilspill Press Conference from 5-27-10 with the U.S. Flags clearly behind him. As we all know I noticed yesterday that something was strange about the conference and realized there were no American Flags behind the President which was a first. I then made a thread about it here and it was picked up by other sites. Now it looks like someone took notice at C-SPAN and digitized the U.S. Flags in. When you run your cursor...

Book TV's After Words: Michael Graham, "That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom," interviewed by Jonathan Karl, ABC News. The program runs about 35 minutes.Learn more about Michael at MichaelGraham.com.Learn more about his book from publisher Regnery:In That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom, Graham unleashes a full-throated defense of Tea Partiers and shows just how right conservatives have been on healthcare reform, the stimulus package, cap-and-trade, cash for clunkers, and more. He also explains exactly how typical Americans are fighting against big government and for their freedom, liberty, and sovereignty—no matter the cost. "The tea party movement is based...

David Pietrusza, author of "1920: The Year of the Six Presidents," profiles America's 30th President, Calvin Coolidge, in his book "Silent Cal's Almanack: The Homespun Wisdom of Vermont's Calvin Coolidge." "Silent Cal's Almanack" features a collection of President Coolidge's speeches, examples of his political thinking, and photos, editorial cartoons and campaign memorabilia that spanned his political career. Mr. Pietrusza spoke at the William K. Sanford Library in Loudonville, New York.

Conversations get really interesting about half way in.

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"Those tapes include Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign speeches...."

Here’s another Obama sweetheart deal you won’t see on C-SPAN. This morning, the fate of Boston’s most infamous illegal immigrant, Zeituni Polly Onyango (also known as “Aunt Zeituni”) will be determined in a closed-door hearing. Why in secret? Because Auntie’s saga reveals every embarrassing truth that amnesty advocates and open-borders liberals like Mayor Tom Menino and Gov. Deval Patrick try to hide. The most important being that illegal immigrants don’t get that way without first doing something, well, illegal. President Barack Obama’s Aunt Zeituni admits she illegally overstayed her visa. Instead of obeying the law, she went to a judge...

Congressional Republicans were smart to invite President Obama to address them in Baltimore last Friday. And it was great that Mr. Obama accepted and was willing to take questions. But the president told some real whoppers. According to Mr. Obama, he basically kept his promise to broadcast health care discussions on C-SPAN. During the campaign when he promised "I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table" and have them broadcast on C-SPAN, he was only referring to the "congressional hearings" that have been televised for decades. He told the Republicans that the deals to give unions a...

Populist or professor? Contrite or uncompromising? President Obama will have a chance Wednesday to reintroduce himself to the nation when he delivers his first official State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. The prime-time speech, which will be aired on all major TV networks and cable stations, could hardly come at a more critical time for a president grappling with double-digit unemployment, sinking poll numbers and the possible collapse of his top domestic policy priority, an overhaul of the nation's health-care system. "As often as the president has spoken over the past year, critics on the...

Repeat of tonight's Q&A on C-Span begins at 11:00 PMEST with an hour of interview of Fred Grandy by Brian Lamb. Grandy is the former "Gopher" on "Love Boat", Republican congressman from Iowa, and current self-proclaimed conservative co-host of the "Grandy and Andy" talk radio show on WMAL in DC.

If we had a Winston Churchill in the White House, America would still be in mortal danger and we would have a long, tough fight for survival ahead. We face a threat of Islamic terrorism as dangerous as any of the many threats of our history including that of Nazi Germany, Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, and Japanese Imperialism. We face economic problems and international competition that call into question our ability to maintain the productive economy necessary to support the military machine needed for survival. We have a failed educational system that will not provide the scientific innovation and educated...

Democrats to president Soetoro: Transparently doesn’t work! That’s the reason that Democrat secret Health Care negotiations will not be broadcasted on C-Span Mr. president and American people. Andrew Ferguson’s, Lamb’s Slaughter, article in the WeeklyStandard.com discusses Brian Lamb’s request to president Soetoro to keep his multiple campaign promises to broadcast all of the health care negotiations on C-Span. Lamb is a Presidential Medal of Freedom winner and the founder and CEO of C-SPAN. (see article) However there’s just one small problem—Democrats already used C-Span to buffet their political enemies with at the beginning of the health care debate only it...

For more than a year, the media watchdog group CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) studiously has been documenting on its Web site feature "C-SPAN Watch" what it refers to as the cable station's "de facto collaboration in disseminating" anti-Jewish and anti-Israel conspiracy theories. In particular, notes CAMERA, C-SPAN's daily public affairs interview program "Washington Journal" "has become a megaphone" for the antisemitic rants of those who blame pretty much all the world's ills on Israel and the Jewish people. Those rants, which often come in during the show's phone-in portion, frequently feature anti-semitic rants that...

According to a Tea Party Group leader who spoke with Senator Jim Demint yesterday, The Senator's office is suspicious of the statements being put out by the Reid/Pelosi closed door negotiations on health care. Publicly they are putting the word out that there is great disagreement in their ranks and it may not be until February. when a bill is ready. It could well be misdirection to keep the public from going crazy and taking action believing that there is plenty of time to stop this bill. We need to get the call out to everyone we know to not...

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It is now so undeniable that Barry Hussein Soetoro is a liar that even the Liberal Elite Media called the first Socialist president of the United States just that—a liar. Did you hear that Congressman Joe Wilson you are justified as CNN’s Jack McCafferty joins all reality based people and calls Barry Hussein Soetoro a liar straight-out! Just another lie? Yes in fact Soetoro has all but said, Read my Lips—Health Care will be on C-Span.

News fairly unbalanced. We report. You decipher.Today, the White House said President Obama's alleged failure to keep an oft-repeated campaign promise to televise high-level health care reform negotiations on C-Span was necessary to protect the "private health information of the participants" under so-called HIPAA privacy rules. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 prevents unauthorized disclosure of patients' health information, according to White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, "and this reform debate has already had serious health consequences for several members of Congress." Indeed, Sens. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., announced this week they would not...

As the contrast between candidate Obama’s repeated invocation of CSPAN and President Obama’s repeated recourse to secrecy reveals, the only thing “transparent” about this administration is its dishonesty, which, like Falstaff’s, “is gross as a mountain, open palpable.” Even the circumspect Brian Lamb, CEO of CSPAN, was moved to lament Obama’s poaching on the prestige of the network to further the Democratic political agenda. Left and right, the public has reacted badly to this blatant failure to honor a campaign promise that was made not once, not twice, but at least eight times. The President’ Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, has...

Stealth Care Reform Samantha Bee thinks President Obama should never have made a concrete pledge to televise health negotiations on C-SPAN.

The White House continued to suffer embarrassment from its decision to limit coverage by C-SPAN of the healthcare-reform debate to a one-hour event in the White House East Room, in violation of eight separate pledges during the campaign that C-SPAN would provide gavel-to-gavel coverage of all debates and all planning sessions. On Wednesday, Brian Lamb, CEO of C-SPAN's parent company, complained to radio talk-show host Bill Press that President Barack Obama had used his network as "a political football," making multiple promises of transparency on the healthcare-reform issue that he apparently never intended to keep. And today, according to The...

A caller on a C-Span interview program Monday complained about "all these Jews" having "way too much power" in America and pushing the U.S. into wars with the Muslim world. He found his comments echoed and expanded upon by the studio guest.

A caller on a C-Span interview program Monday complained about "all these Jews" having "way too much power" in America and pushing the U.S. into wars with the Muslim world. He found his comments echoed and expanded upon by the studio guest. Michael Scheuer, the former director of a CIA unit assigned to track down Osama Bin-Laden, calmly expressed the view that American soldiers are now dying in Iraq for the sake of Israelis. (snip) The interviewer for C-Span's Washington Journal program did not react to the blatantly anti-Semitic exchange. Several other callers praised Scheuer for his position regarding Israel,...

Mother Alaphiah loves Barry Hussein Soetoro she voted for him. The only politicians that she adores more than the Soetoro’s are Bill and Hillary Clinton. Luckily I didn’t get all of my values from dear old mother Alaphiah. One value that I did get from mother, she used to constantly moralize how she, “hates a liar.” Needless to say lying was not welcomed around the Alaphiah household. Oh I wasn’t perfect but let’s say if mother ever caught me in a lie she taught me how to regret it. Because of my mother’s conviction I never developed the aptitude, dishonestly...