Congress Launches own YouTube Websites
Congress is introducing official YouTube channels where members of the House and Senate can create and manage videos of floor speeches, hearings or ceremonies. The new channels give viewers a centralized destination to find out what their representatives are doing and voice their own opinions. The lawmaker websites, can be located on a Google Map interface, can be found on http://youtube.com/househub and http://youtube.com/senatehub.
So far, a few members have posted videos on the sites. John Boehner, R-Ohio, has 97 videos, including one introducing the new “house hub” web site. To facilitate the YouTube interface, the House and Senate revised their rules at the opening of the new Congress last week to allow members, who all have their own official websites, also post material on third-party websites. The House rules necessitates that a member must include a notice advising site visitors when they leave an official House Web site for a 3rd-party site. There must also be a disclaimer that neither the member nor the House is responsible for the content of the linked sites.
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