* FoxNews.com brings us the following report and it starts off like this... The head of C-SPAN has implored Congress to open up the last leg of health care reform negotiations to the public, as top Democrats lay plans to hash out the final product among themselves... C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb wrote to leaders in the House and Senate Dec. 30 urging them to open "all important negotiations, including any conference committee meetings," to televised coverage on his network... "The C-SPAN networks will commit the necessary resources to covering all of the sessions LIVE and in their entirety," he wrote... In a Tuesday afternoon press conference on health legislation negotiations, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared to object to the premise behind the request... "There has never been a more open process for any legislation in anyone who’s served here’s experience," she said... However, Republican leaders sided with C-SPAN's calls for transparency...
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C-SPAN Challenges Congress to Open Health Care Talks to TV Coverage
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