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Daily Digest: Amplified, Asked, and Answered
techPresident — ... House" session featured Craiglist's Craig Newmark, Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller, conservative consultant Mindy Finn, and New America's Sascha Meinrath. Here's the hour and twenty minute video. We haven't watched it yet, but we heard great things about it on Twitter. A YouTube of Their Own: One thing you'll notice about the just-launched Senate Hub and House Hub on YouTube: no ads. Congress and YouTube came to an agreement on ...

Inhofe: It’s time to get angry and tear up the TARP
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... For instance, Summers promises “smart, aggressive policies to reduce the number of preventable foreclosures,” while Frank’s bill would require the Obama administration to spend at least $40 billion of the TARP funds on foreclosure measures, among several other specific directives on that front. They’ve got 59 votes in the Senate now and god knows how many more on the way come 2010 , so get used to it. Exit question: Why isn’t Inhofe’s video listed among the clips at the Senate’s YouTube hub ?

Congress Comes to YouTube (again)…But it Almost Didn’t Happen
Stop The ACLU — John Boehner, GOP House Minority leader , reports on a new venture… Today marks the launch of a new collaborative effort between The U.S. Congress and YouTube.com. The House Hub and Senate Hub have been developed to make it easier for visitors to find their elected officials and their YouTube channels . YouTube and other popular technologies continue to empower American citizens with real-time information about the policy debates and actions being undertaken by Congress. As we see more and more members from both sides of the aisle embrace web video and social media, it’s easy to forget that ...

Daily Digest: Questions, Cats, and Chaos Avoidance
techPresident — Quizzing RNC Hopefuls: The race to be the next Republican National Committee chair is heating up, and it remains particularly fascinating because no clear front-runner has emerged. With two weeks left before the vote takes place, the grasstops-led Rebuild the Party has teamed up with YouTube to put together a video forum to question the six declared candidates. If you remember our 10 Questions project, then you get how it works. (One neat improvement: submissions can be auto-posted to Twitter.) The forum isn't entirely community-driven, though. To ensure a diversity ...

State, Agencies Working Out the Details to Get Online
techPresident — ... and Senate's walled YouTube gardens. The Federal Web Managers Council is helping to lead the talks, and the sticking points are two. First, an indemnification clause that refers YouTube disputes to state court. That's a no-no for federal agencies, which are required to settle things in federal courts. The second is the easily-solvable matter of videos of scantily-clad vixens showing up alongside a FEMA "How to Apply for a Housing Reimbursement" clip. ...

Clearing the Cache
techPresident — ... Google Moderator gets around. YouTube's using the tool to open up its Senate and House hubs (though the implementation is definitely on the beta end of things for now). ...

Connecting With Our Senators!
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — You want to tell the Senate your ideas? You want to let them know how you feel about the stimulus bill or other issues that the Senate deals with? You now have your chance. Here is The U.S. Senate of Youtube. A hub to watch, engage, and connect with your leaders. It has an interactive map that helps you find your Senator's Youtube channel. Sen. John Cornyn is up today asking you what you think about the stimulus package (yeah, try not to curse, ok?) So hit the link and get in touch with your thoughts and ideas!

Ramya Raghavan: YouTube: A New Way to Write Your Congressman
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... and the U.S. Senate on the Senate Hub. Now, members of Congress are taking it a step further with YouTube's "Senator of the Week" and "Representative of the Week" programs, which leverage video and a new Google platform - " ...

Legislation 2.0.2 Starting to Gain Momentum
techPresident — ... " got some attention at the time, but then the Durbin staffer who was responsible for shepherding the process reportedly went back to graduate school, and little more was heard of the notion. A couple of legislators have turned to the web to take questions from the public--most notably Speaker Nancy Pelosi at last year's Netroots Nation with "AsktheSpeaker," and a couple of Senators and Representatives who have been going on YouTube's SenateHub and ...

Senator Dodd Wants to Know What YOU Think About Healthcare Reform
Corrente — More specifically, he wants to know your likes and dislikes in the admittedly dysfunctional American Healthcare system: I am thinking that this is another opportunity to drive home the message of support for Single Payer! Have at it right over here: Senator Dodd asks: Is your health care working? What changes would you like to see? Add your ideas at YouTube's Senate Hub at http://youtube.com/senatehub Democratic Senators are writing a major ...

VIDEO: Senator Dodd Wants to Know What YOU Think About Healthcare Reform
The Political Carnival — By GottaLaff See that video? Did you watch it? Good. Now go read this. Please. Then watch the video again. Then be loud and be clear. I am thinking that this is another opportunity to drive home the message of support for Single Payer! Have at it right over here: Senator Dodd asks: Is your health care working? What changes would you like to see? Add your ideas at YouTube's Senate Hub at ...