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Lawmakers post on new YouTube channels

I'm thinking they saw how well PE Obama did with the YouTube and figured they better get in the game.

WASHINGTON - Tired of YouTube clips of precocious kids, stupid pets or faux superheroes? Try out the videos of House Minority Leader John Boehner, or maybe New York Rep. Charles Rangel, the lawmaker in charge of writing tax bills.

Congress is launching official YouTube channels where members of the House and Senate can create and control videos of floor speeches, hearings or ribbon-cuttings.

Lawmakers frequently use the world's most popular online video service to promote themselves and their causes, but the new channels give viewers a single destination to find out what their representatives are up to and express their own opinions.

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The lawmaker sites, which can be located on a Google Map interface, are available on http://youtube.com/househub and http://youtube.com/senatehub.