Rachel Maddow: Having free online access to the more than 160,000 hours of C-Span footage is “like being able to Google political history using the ‘I Feel Lucky’ button every time,”…“It’s raw footage of political actors in their native habitat, without media personalities mediating viewers’ access,”

Ed Morrissey, a senior correspondent for the conservative blog Hot Air: “The geek in me wants to find an excuse to start digging.”

C-Span founder, Brian Lamb: “You can see if politicians are saying one thing today, and 15 years ago were saying another thing.” “Journalists can feast on it.”

C-Span Puts Its Full Archives on the Web - NYTimes

YAY! tapes include the Iran-Contra hearings. uumm wow I guess I am a nerd.