It might be time to add C-Span to the old-fashioned saying, “As American as baseball and apple pie.”

That’s because the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, the bipartisan commission charged with leading the celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States, has chosen the public service cable network as its first media partner.

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