Thursday 31 May 2007
- OLBERMANN: To one of those points in there, I was intrigued by the suggestion you made in the book about Congress should hold its key votes in prime time. That would get, theoretically, some of the public momentum back. At least people might initially mistake it for some sort of live-action series or reality show.
- But why is it that you or I can check on the minute-by-minute progress of a football game or a basketball game or a baseball game or an “American Idol” show on the Internet, on a BlackBerry, on your cell phone, but last week, during those votes in the House and the Senate, I couldn‘t get a representative-by-representative vote or Senate-by-Senate vote, senator-by-senator vote, anywhere on the Internet. What happened there?
- GORE: I think that‘s an excellent point, Keith, and it should be remedied. And I have a list of specific recommendations for a lot of the institutions of our society, including the Congress, and that‘s one of them. I think that we should have the most important debates in prime time, so that the American people could watch if they choose to.
- And I think that the Congress and all parts of the government should be transparent to those citizens who wish to contact them over the Internet and get a minute-by-minute, second-by-second account of what‘s going on, and give their own opinions during the process.
