C-SPAN shows Congress tweets during SOTU
When we saw (on Twitter) that C-SPAN 2 was showing tweets from members of Congress while they listened (?) to the State of the Union, we had to check it… Read more »
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Legislator gets unkind poke on Facebook
From the Political Fix: “One freshman Missouri legislator says her Facebook account was compromised Thursday when someone used the account to post an embarrassing status update on her page. The Facebook… Read more »
State of the State
From Missourinet.com. Story by Brent Martin, photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI: AUDIO: 44 min Governor Nixon acknowledge times are tough, but asserted he was an optimist in urging the General Assembly… Read more »
German lawmakers loving the iPad
Politicians in Germany are using iPads en masse in the Bundestag, the German parliament chamber. The device is “a reasonable expense claim” for the politicians, so they’re popping up everywhere…. Read more »
C-SPAN rocking the social media
C-SPAN will broadcast live video of the transfer of power in House on its Facebook Page today. They’re also doing the State of the Union address later this month. Story… Read more »
Day One of 2011 session
We grabbed the following from The Missourinet blog. We’re not sure if we’re looking at lyrics to a song; free verse; or result of Bob Priddy sticky return key. It’s… Read more »
iPads coming to U.S. House?
The U.S. House of Representatives has operated under a rule that banned use of personal computers on the floor of the House. But that might change for the incoming Congress… Read more »
Beginnings of the End
The last days of the 95th Missouri General Assembly signal the beginning of the 2011 legislative session, the 96th General Assembly. About one-third of the members of the legislature who… Read more »
You’re fired. Temporarily.
Two weeks ago, after the Chairman of the Senate Fiscal Oversight Committee had abruptly adjourned his committee without any discussion about the so-called Ford bill, we asked him if he… Read more »
Non-progress report
“The non-progress report on the legislature’s special session we issued at mid-week needs a quick update because it appears progress has been made. To hear legislative leaders talk, you’d think… Read more »