For C-SPAN's 47th Anniversary, Something Rare: Top Moments from the House Ethics Committee
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This episode celebrates C-SPAN's 47th anniversary by exploring rare public hearings of the House Ethics Committee.
It's C-SPAN's 47th anniversary! Typically for a C-SPAN anniversary, you get lots of clips of big, famous, and often entertaining moments culled from thousands of hours of coverage of the U.S. House floor. But not this time… Not for "Extreme Mortman." For this year's anniversary, the C-SPAN podcast "Extreme Mortman" goes in the opposite direction – we give you something in Congress you hardly ever get access to – the House ethics committee… "I commend you for the work you've done. I know you have a tough time here. I want you to disregard all the opposing counsel has said. I think they're delusionary. I think they've had something funny for lunch in their meal. I think they should be handcuffed to a chain-link fence, flogged and all their hearsay evidence should be thrown the hell out. And if they lie again, I'm going to go over and kick them in the crotch. Thank you very much." That was Ohio Democratic Congressman James Traficant. July 17th, 2002. A rare public televised meeting of the House ethics committee. Which other times has that committee met in a public hearing on C-SPAN? Who were the targets of those investigations? Did members of Congress testify? And what was said –…
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