C-SPAN Video Library
Interested in hearing Maher Arar’s testimony to the US House Committees on Torture? Or watching Toyota executives testify before Senate? Or perhaps you’d like to watch bank executives being grilled over the recent financial crisis? Well you can watch all this and more on the C-Span Video Library website.
“Every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, now totaling over 160,000 hours, is contained in the C-SPAN Archives and immediately accessible through the database….”
Videos of Congressional sessions and committee hearings are posted alongside full-text transcripts of the events and a list of all participants. Other types of content include press briefings/news conferences, media interviews, clips of debates, ceremonies, public appearances, and even clips from foreign legislatures. You can search for videos by “subject, speaker names, titles, affiliations, sponsors, committees, categories, formats, policy groups, keywords, and location.”