Lawmakers advanced a measure that would ban taking photos and video from chamber-floor-adjacent hallways.
The Select Committee on Legislative Facilities, Technology and Process voted last month to bar photo- and broadcast journalists from entering the halls that run next to the House and Senate floors. The rule change eliminates the opportunity to gather eye-level images of lawmakers at work in each chamber, relegating journalists to documenting what’s happening on the floors from the galleries above.
If adopted by the Management Council in November, the policy change would become the latest in a series of progressive restraints applied to the diminished legislative press corps in the People’s Hou...
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