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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Just after Representative John Boehner was sworn in as the 61st Speaker of the House earlier today,
he
and new House Oversight Committee Chairman
Darrell Issa
made an early move to make the activities of the House of Representatives more accessible to citizens via YouTube. Starting in this 112th Congress, all committee hearings of the House Oversight committee will be available on YouTube, on a new channel called
HouseResourceOrg
. This is the first congressional committee to ever put all of its hearings online, and the new Speaker hopes it’s the first step towards getting all House committee hearings available to all citizens on the web.
This was made possible via a
Google Project 10^100
grant made to Carl Malamud at PublicResource.org, who will be working with the House to access and upload all of the hearings that the Oversight Committee holds each week. PublicResource.org will also upload hundreds of hours of
archived content
. Where transcripts are available from the House, they'll be uploaded along with the videos, using YouTube's auto-timing capabilities
to automatically create accurate captions through voice recognition
. Thanks to the reuse of these uploaded transcripts, PublicResource.org
videos
with captions will be fully searchable, and the captions can be
auto-translated
into over 50 languages.
Here’s an example of the types of videos you’ll see on the new channel – if you go to the
video page
, you can see the interactive transcript in the upper-right hand corner of the clip:
As always, you can access the individual channels of Members of Congress at
youtube.com/househub
and
youtube.com/senatehub
.
Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, recently watched
“
U.S. Policy towards Iran
.”
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