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House Transportation Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar (D-MN) talked about his 18-term career in the House of Representatives after he was defeated in the 2010 midterm election. He was intervi…

Representative Buck McKeon (R-CA), who was retiring at the end of the 113th Congress, reflected on his 11 terms in the House of Representatives and his leadership of the House Armed Services…

Representative Dave Camp (R-MI), who was retiring at the end of the 113th Congress, reflected on his 12 terms in the House of Representatives and his leadership of the House Ways and Means C…

John Yoo, former deputy assistant attorney general in the George W. Bush administration, talked about the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) …

Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA), who was retiring at the at the conclusion of his 17th term in office, talked about his 33 years in Congress. Topics included what he will miss about Congres…

Representative Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), who was retiring at the end of the 113th Congress, reflected on her career in the House of Representatives. Topics included her reasons for running fo…

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Rajiv Shah talked about the U.S. response to the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa. Congress was being asked to appropriate ano…

Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), who was retiring at the end of the 113th Congress, reflected on his career in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Senator Harkin first arrived in the Hous…

Representative Tom Petri (R-WI), who was retiring at the end of the 113th Congress, reflected on his 35-year career in the House of Representatives. He talked about some of the historical ev…

Representative Bill Flores (R-TX) talked from Capitol Hill about the Republican Study Committee (RSC). He was elected November 18, 2014, to be the chair of the RSC for the 114th Congress. He…

C-SPAN’s 2014 election night coverage included election results, candidate victory and concession speeches, and viewer reactions. Roll Call editor-in-chief Christina Bellantoni and Washingto…

Rob Engstrom talked about the role of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in the 2014 midterm elections. The Wall Street Journal said that the Chamber was the nonprofit group that had spent the mos…

Ty Matsdorf talked about the Senate Majority PAC’s (political action committee) efforts to protect the Democratic majority in the Senate. The PAC, which is close to Senate Majority Leader Ha…

House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) talked about various issues in the news. He discussed immigration and border security; Attorney General Holder’s program to reduce mistru…

Susan Swain announced the theme for C-SPAN’s 2015 StudentCam documentary competition: “The Three Branches and You.” Contestants were asked to tell a story that demonstrates how a policy, law…

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) talked by video link from Capitol Hill about the fall congressional agenda and the November 2014 elections. He said that he expected that Congress woul…

Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the nation’s largest union, talked by remote video from San Francisco about employment numbers, minimum wage, i…

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member David Vitter (R-LA) talked by video link from Capitol Hill about the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and it’s Clean Power P…

Gil Kerlikowske talked about federal efforts to handle an unprecedented influx of unaccompanied minors from Central America crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without proper documentation. Afte…

Craig Silliman talked about key issues in telecommunications. Topics included the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) spectrum auctions, wireless communication, net neutrality, National…