And they've definitely forgotten they nearly botched the whole thing.
Lawmakers say they've learned to ignore the cameras, and bureaucrats drone on as ever before.
But every now and then, someone gets a call from the hinterland about something that happened a few minutes before, and lawmakers know at least somebody is watching. There are people who are TVW junkies, and I think I'm one. In the Tri-Cities, it airs on TCI Cablevision channel 13 from midnight to noon. The idea, says manager Denny Heck, is to give viewers a look at Washington politics in its rawest form, unfiltered by statehouse spin doctors and the news media. This doesn't exactly make for the most exciting television.