Congress Streams live on Facebook

On Janurary 4, 2011 the US Congress made its live broadcast debut on Facebook with the legislative body's first session was streamed on the social networking site.  House Speaker John Boehner annouced the descion to do so on "Pledge to America" Facebook page and were able to watch the House of Representatives transition over to Republican control.  Online viewers were able to watch all the floor proceeders and Boehner's first speech as Speaker of the House and had the ability to comment on the ideas and events as they occured on the networking site.  Boehner's director of ditigal media Nick Schaper told CNN that the real time stream would help set the tone for a new majority that will continue to find new ways to listen and better represent the American people.  With all this being done it will help to better improve the involvment of American citizens with questions and comments they may have with on going issues and situations going on in society today.  Boehner and his active team of soical media users have a blog on their website which currently features a post about the live stream and future live streams to come not only on Facebook but on Twitter and Youtube alike!  He has also said he will change his Twitter to help reflect his new position and hopes other leaders will also switch to this new line of Congress stream for the 112th Congress's official start.  I think this is a great development for Congress to take the steps nessacary to get the American public more involved with situations that need to be addressed and getting them taken care of  in the near future.