Nancy Pelosi started her YouTube channel back in 2006 and has posted nearly 1,500 videos since then, including some not taken inside the House Chamber. Despite her good efforts in getting video of Congress out to the internets, it isn't nearly enough. Now Congress, all of it, is officially going YouTube.
From RawStory:
Well those will be two channels I'll be adding today. Hopefully all of the elected officials will make good use of them. As for C-SPAN, I'm sure they'll continue to do well with this new competition. Sometimes they are an essential source of information to have on in the background and of course if no one posts the video you are looking for.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Senate and House of Representatives have launched YouTube channels following a presidential election in which the video-sharing website played an influential role.
Steve Grove, head of news and politics at Google-owned YouTube, announced the creation of the channels, youtube.com/senatehub, and youtube.com/househub, in a post on the YouTube blog on Monday that also featured appearances in a YouTube video by the Democratic and Republican leaders of the chambers.
Grove said members of the US Congress would be "posting videos direct from their Washington offices, as well as clips of floor speeches and committee hearings alongside additional behind-the-scenes footage from Capitol Hill."
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