If you’re just practicing, you could use footage from a digital camera (or borrow a friends). Istockphoto.com has one free video clip per month that you could download and edit (although this month’s wouldn’t work well). You could also just find a website with some downloadable video clips and download and edit those. So long as you don’t distribute the end result, I don’t think you’d be violating copyright (although I’m no lawyer, and you’d have to check on that first).
Also, any footage of the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives or U.S. Senate, and any coverage of committee hearings produced by C-Span or the committees themselves can be used with virtually no restrictions, so you could edit those. You can find short clips on many websites of members of Congress and full hearings on some committee websites. I realize they may not be the most dynamic clips but at least you’d have something.
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