Saturday, October 11, 2008
The General Assembly is not in session.
Tracking Virginia’s General Assembly
since 2007.
HJ757: General Assembly; television coverage of legislative sessions.
Chief Patron
Del.
Chuck Caputo (D-67)
Chuck Caputo
(D-67)
Oak Hill, VA
Served: 2006–
Progress
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Introduced |
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Passed House |
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Status
Bill is Dead
Summary
General Assembly; television coverage of legislative sessions. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that television coverage of the sessions of the House of Delegates and the Senate should be provided to public and private broadcasting interests for transmission to the citizens of the Commonwealth.
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2 votes
Comments
People opposed to open government I guess would prefer we live under totalitarian rule.
Kudos for Caputo for trying to improve this situation
I don't think that unbroadcast sessions = totalitarianism. I'd like to see the sessions broadcast so that people would have a better idea of how the legislature works (or doesn't as the case may be). But to really see the action, you'd have to broadcast committee and subcommittee meetings.
All of these are open to the public, but there's scant space for the "public" in some of the meeting rooms. What generally happens is long stretches of tedium interspersed with brief moments of debate. I think it would be great to broadcast the brief moments of debate but I doubt that most people would want to sit through hours of dullness to get to those parts.