Brian Lamb

C-SPAN Seeks Access as Final Health Deal Goes Behind Closed Doors

As a candidate for president, Barack Obama criticized the Bush White House for its code of secrecy on everything from Dick Cheney's energy task force to details on the intelligence that led to the Iraq war. On the campaign trail, Obama promised that his White House would operate differently. On health care, he pledged in August 2008, "We'll have all the negotiations around a big table. . . . But what we will do is, we'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug ...

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