Topic: Senate Subcommittee

2 chapters across the catalog

Fact Pattern
Episode 623 33:01 - 36:40

623: Fact Pattern

Accessing Raw Senate Subcommittee Video Archives

A host describes calling Senator Jeff Sessions' office to identify a specific subcommittee meeting mentioned in testimony. The investigation reveals that most Senate committees maintain their own websites with raw video archives of meetings that are never broadcast on C-SPAN. This discovery is framed as a "gold mine" for future media deconstruction and show material.

Episode 414 5:03 - 9:40

414: Thingamajig

ITU Proposals and Vint Cerf Senate Testimony

Vint Cerf, representing Google, testified before a Senate subcommittee regarding United Nations proposals for the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to regulate the internet. Chairman Greg Walden warned that international regulatory regimes could break the internet by applying old telephone service rules to modern data networks. Cerf's self-identification as a "father of the internet" in his written testimony is criticized as elitist and arrogant.