YouTube announced that it created a House and Senate hub for officeholder videos. The change to House and Senate rules required to allow the creation of these hubs was noted in this October 2008 article. The House Rules Committee approved the change for the House of Representatives on Thursday, while the Senate Rules and Administration […]
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The Broken Branch
I’ve added photos from today’s panel discussion at The Brookings Institution to the Political Activity Law flickr page here. I’ll have more on the discussion later, but the report distributed at the event is available here.
Back in the Saddle
The restrictions on Sen. Lott as a former officeholder have expired, according to this report. “I’m free!” announced former Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi. “My year is up!” Special interests politics are apparently still in favor with the former Republican leader, who said he had been counting the seconds — quite literally — until the […]