Republicans Attack 1st Amendment: Media Barred From Filming, Interviewing Senators


Republicans Attack 1st Amendment: Media Barred From Filming, Interviewing Senators

Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Host of Hardline Radio Show

Republicans in the Senate have announced a crackdown on the media’s ability to access senators on Capitol Hill.

Journalist Alexander Bolton writes: “Reporters were told they would no longer be allowed to film or record audio of interviews in the Senate side hallways of the Capitol without special permission.”

Televised news media will require “permission from senators, the Senate Rules Committee, the Senate Sergeant at Arms or the Senate Radio and TV Gallery, depending on location, before conducting an on-camera interview with a senator anywhere in the Capitol or in the Senate office buildings.”

Republican and chair of the Rules Committee Richard Shelby pushed back once this shocking change was reported by the media, saying that “no additional restrictions have een put in place by the Rules Committee.”

Shelby added that his committee “has been working with the various galleries to ensure compliance with existing rules”; however there are no previously known rules barring journalists and reporters from questioning Senators in the hallways outside their offices.

And Senator Amy Klobuchar, ranking democrat on the Rules Committee revealed that Shelby “just said it was a staff inquiry” that would be discussed by the committee, but not an implemented rule change.

Klobuchar said in a statement: “As ranking member of the Senate Rule Committee I call on the majority to allow reporting in the Capitol to proceed as usual.”


Susanne Posel

Susanne Posel



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