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Mitt Romney to heckler: "Corporations are people" listen

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Tags: Mitt Romney, C-SPAN, Iowa caucus, corporations, corporate personhood, Social Security

Are corporations people? Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney seems to think so. In a campaign stop at the Iowa State Fair Thursday Romney was questioned by an audience member whether he would take Social Security out of the debt-reduction debate since it doesn’t contribute to the national debt.

"We have to make sure the promises we make are promises we can keep. And there are various ways of doing that. One is we can raise taxes on people. That's not the way..."

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C-SPAN covers Tampa Bay; Florida League Of Women Voters says it's stopping voter registration efforts

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Tags: C-SPAN, Debbie Lamb, LWV, League of Women Voters of Florida, League of Women Voters, Deidre MacNab, HB 1355, elections, 2011 Legislative session

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up today we'll talk with C-SPAN producer Debbie Lamb about C-SPAN's "local content vehicle" tour of the Tampa Bay area. C-SPAN producers are spending one week here visiting various literary and historic sites, and interviewing local historians, authors and civic leaders.

During C-SPAN’s inaugural tour stop in Tampa/St. Petersburg, the network will also record interviews about the city’s plans for the 2012 Republican National C...

C-SPAN comfortable in its financial future listen

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Tags: C-SPAN

If you follow the U.S. government, you are probably familiar with the television station C-SPAN. It carries such programming as live coverage of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

A community relations representative of C-SPAN, Doug Hemmig, is in Tampa Bay this weekend for the Times Festival of Reading and to promote their student documentary competition. Hemmig spoke with WMNF today.

Doug Hemmig: “C-SPAN is a private non-profit network designed to give you gavel-to-gav...