MINIMAL COVERAGE OF THE US SENATE HEARING ON DC STATEHOOD? LINKS LINKS AND MORE LINKS TO WHAT LITTLE WAS COVERED GOOD VIDEO OFFICIAL VIDEO BY THE US SENATE COMMITTEE There is official committee video of the hearing, on the committee website. NO WAMU DC POLITICS HOUR REPORTING OF THE US SENATE HEARING EVENTS AND FINAL TESTIMONY (S.132 DC STATEHOOD HEARING Sept. 15 2014) Surprisingly no WAMU (Kojo Nnamdi) DC Politics Hour coverage (after the fact) of the Mondays (September 15, 2014) US Senate Committee hearing on S.132 bill on DC Statehood today (Friday Sept. 20). No on air WAMU coverage of the US Senate hearing reporting what actually happened, despite this being the first such US Senate hearing on DC voting rights in apparently 20 years. The US Senate hearing had two panels give spoken testimony, the first being DCs three most important elected leaders, the DC Mayor (locally elected and head of local government executive branch), the citys Council Chair (head of the city legislature), and DCs US Delegate to Congress who by US Congress disenfranchisement of DC is a non voting Congresswoman with diminished powers such as cant actually vote bills into law such as any to do with the full federal taxation of DC and spending of any tax dollar both federal and local controlled by the US Congress. The second panel was a wider variety of lower ranking DC leaders, such as DCs two shadow US Senators, who are not actual US Senators but are elected by DC citizens to demonstrate DC preparedness for statehood, and several scholars and a former administrators of DC local government budget. No grass roots organizers (alone) for the DC statehood gave spoken testimony supporting the (2014) S.132 DC Statehood bill, in preference for elected and career DC government professionals. WAMU TEXT ARTICLE COVERAGE There was one text article on the WAMU website reporting on what took place at the US Senate hearing on restoring full voting rights in DC, this time via DC statehood. WAMU SENATE HEARING PREVIEW INTERVIEWS There was one major hearing preview interview with two of the spoken testimony speakers by WAMU, with Cato Institutes Roger Pilon and Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, debated the D.C. statehood bill on WAMU 88.5 this morning. which was apparently the morning of the day of the actual US Senate committee hearing. The DC Politics Hour the Friday before the Monday US Senate committee did another state of the DC Statehood movement and effectively a US Senate hearing preview, interviewed Josh Burch, our recently prominent young father and organizer of DC Statehood lobbying on Capitol Hill, which was thoughtful on restoring DC statehood, but Josh Burch did not give testimony in the US Senate hearing. Josh Burch has been interviewed by the Washington Post, and covered in local media for his prominent success in raising the DC Statehood issue profile and gaining co-sponsors to the US House and Senate DC statehood bills. NO C-SPAN COVERAGE?!? There was no C-SPAN coverage of the US Senate hearing on (2014) S.132 hearing on DC Statehood legislation. Email correspondence suggests they will never broadcast the US Senate committee official footage (which is by law public domain). SIGNIFICANT PRINT MEDIA COVERAGE Interestingly many newspapers in the serious print media, including Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Washington Times, covered this US Senate hearing on DC Statehood. LINKS US Senate HSGAC Committee Hearing Official Video and Testimony Witness list hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/equality-for-the-district-of-columbia-discussing-the-implications-of-s-132-the-new-columbia-admission-act-of-2013 more links below
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