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Senate Historian: How Television Changed the Senate

By JM Rieger
Posted May 30, 2015 at 1:38pm

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Senate Historian Donald Ritchie describes the shift to television cameras in the Senate and the “huge debate” that ensued as a result in a 2010 exclusive interview with CQ Roll Call.

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