Some people in Congress are leading transparency

Today I received an unexpected email at our general info(at)voterwatch.org that gave me hope for the future of transparency in Congress:

I ran across your list of where to find committee transcripts, audio, and video.  It is a great resource.  I just wanted to point out that we also have archives of nearly all of our hearings (ones missing are due to technical difficulties) since the beginning of the Congress here: http://edlabor.house.gov/committee/hearings.shtml, and we post selected statements made in hearings as well as some of our press conferences and the occasional floor speech on our YouTube site: http://www.youtube.com/edlabordemocrats.

Will Johnston
New Media Specialist
Committee on Education and Labor
U.S. House of Representatives
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This is the first time we’ve been contacted pro-actively by someone in Congress.  We couldn’t be more delighted to be corrected.  Will Johnston seems to be working hard to make videos and transcripts available to the public.  Hurray!  In the next weeks we’ll be contacting more committees and trying to find more staffers who are working to improve transparency and communication to the public and their constituents.  And yes, if there’s anyone else who sees an error in our summary of available information from committees, please email us and we’ll update our list!  info(at)voterwatch.org