Greta Brawner

@cspanwj Host & @cspan Executive Producer. 7yrs in print covering #capitolhill. Retweets, vids, etc., not endorsement

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U.S. Senate candidate @TroyJackson207 (D-ME) on criticism to "Can't Eat Road Salt" debate comment regarding tariff impacts: "I'm not mocking the fact that she got one thing or two things off the list, I'm mocking the fact that there shouldn't have been a list to begin with."

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U.S. Senate Candidate Josh @turek4iowa shotguns a beer with voters at tailgate party.

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.@VP on expansion of data centers: "I think what these companies have to do is take advantage of some of the federal deregulatory efforts that we've undertaken. If you build the data center, you should be putting power back into the grid."

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VP Vance on global vulnerabilities related to continued U.S. operations in Iran: "It's a concern of ours because of underinvestment in the military for a very long time."

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.@SenSusanCollins: "Canada - not China - Canada is our best friend and ally and our biggest trade partner."

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.@SenSusanCollins (R-ME) Remarks at a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at Senior Housing Complex in Calais, ME.

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Peter Navarro to Canada: "You're the problem."

[Washington Journal @cspanwj]

White House Senior Trade Counselor @RealPNavarro
on Canada's retaliatory tariffs: "This is not a partisan issue…this is simply an issue of protecting our workers, our ranchers, and our farmers. And Canada has really been exploiting us, exploiting USMCA, not negotiating in good faith. And Carney---the worst thing that ever happened to Canada was when Carney made a come-from-behind victory."

[Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt]

It has been great fun this week to have my @SalemMedia program simulcast on @CSPAN. Throughout the week (and will again today) I’ve been recognizing the work of the great Brian Lamb —who is doing the interview excerpted below— as well as the longtime hosts Peter Slen (@pslen), Susan Swain (@cspansusan), @howardmortman, and now the new CEO @SamFeistDC and of course many others that have made CSPAN the institution it is like @SteveScully, John MacArdle (@cspanJohn), @GretaBrawner, Pedro Echevarria and a dozen more behind the cameras and operations. It’s a remarkable institution among Washington’s many institutions.

Russell Kirk, in Chapter 8 of The Conservative Mind, “Conservatism with Imagination: Disraeli and Newman,” gets to the heart of what makes a nation: Institutions that preserve that nation’s essence. CSPAN was born in the brain of Brian Lamb about 1977 and began broadcasting in 1979, just as America shuddered through the hostage crisis and just President Reagan campaigned for the White House. Almost 50 years later CSPAN does at least as much or more to conserve the Constitution and the liberties it protects as any organ or platform of old or new media because it allows the work of the Constitution to always be on air and it presents without filter candidates and conversations. It has done so much with Book TV and Booknotes and the broadcast of thousands of author interviews from other venues as well as panels and symposia and of course “C-SPAN’s Q&A” and “Washington Journal.”

All because of the sage of Lafayette, Indiana and son of Purdue Brian Lamb, a gentleman of the old school.

I will have to talk today on my program about Brian Lamb with Dr. Larry Arnn, president of @Hillsdale College, who has himself been across from America’s most penetrating interviewer. I am certain Dr. Arnn will share with me and every other author who has sat across from Lamb, as well as those whose books have been searched by Peter Slen or Susan Swain, or videos curated and carefully collected by Howard Mortman, a deep appreciation for what they and their colleagues to numerous to mention, have built. Sam Feist is a great steward to carry CSPAN into its second 50 years. I hope Sam is searching for the next generation interviewer/host. @Continetti comes to mind. There are others.

But it is all because of Brian Lamb, who had an idea. If you have Kirk’s Conservative Mind gathering dust somewhere, find it and read Chapter 8 about what it is many conservatives do: Keep alive institutions as they rebuild and reorganize and then return to center stage. CSPAN has kept alive the idea and the actual conduct of conversation, argument and debate. When its 50th birthday party rolls around by decade’s end, I hope all of Washington, D.C. and publishers everywhere find a way to salute Lamb and his tribe of curators.

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Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) on her credibility: "Is national security important? Absolutely. Can I learn? I'm smart. Yes, I'll learn. I'll become informed."

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Tense exchange between Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) and audience member over some of her corporate PAC donations: "Do you know how PAC contributions work? I have no control over the PAC money coming in or how it's spent."

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U.S. Senate Candidate @TroyJackson207 (D-ME) on Sen. Susan Collins' (R-ME) comment on how she brings money back to the state: "I see her as taking a lot more money out of the system than bringing it in..."

[Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan]

"I'm Natalie Harp, a formerly forgotten American from California."

[Greta Brawner @gretabrawner]

RT @cspan: U.S. Senate candidate @SherrodBrown (D-OH) on C-SPAN's MMJ program: "It's a real service to the country."

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C-Span: Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) says he will support the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan whether it’s El-Sayed or Stevens

[Greta Brawner @gretabrawner]

@JacobRubashkin @cspan @efilter531 @JacobRubashkin @efilter531 Let's do this! @cspan 2026 Primary Night!

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DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin (@SecMullinDHS) at National Governor's Association meeting: "Let me work with you on this stuff. I'm not handling things like maybe the past secretary had."

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DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin (@SecMullinDHS): "Is immigration reform possible? No."

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Michigan Governor candidate @JocelynBenson (D) emphasized her commitment to protecting the integrity of Michigan's elections: "I will always proudly stand up to anyone, anytime, anywhere who would try to interfere with the rights and the freedoms of our Michiganders."

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Chief Justice Roberts probes Solicitor General Sauer on salience of "birth tourism" in birthright citizenship case: "You do agree that has no impact on the legal analysis before us?"

Sauer: "We're in a new world now."

Roberts: "It's a new world, it's the same Constitution."