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40 years ago: U.S. Senate allows TV cameras into chamber
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1:55Now Playing#OnThisDay June 2, 1986: The U.S. Senate opened its chambers to TV cameras, allowing C-SPAN to begin gavel-to-gavel coverage of the “world’s greatest deliberative body.”
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