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Speaker of the House Starts Blogging

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the grass-roots-politics dept.

Bjimba writes "Denny Hastert, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, has just started his own blog on the official speaker.gov site. I don't know if he'll keep up with it, but from reading his initial post, it seems clear that he's not employing ghostbloggers."

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  1. blog? bah. by jpmatth · · Score: 5, Informative

    hastert's colleague in the senate, barack obama, has been doing an excellent podcast for several months now.

  2. Re:No comments? by Rescate · · Score: 2, Informative

    Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) has a blog that allows comments. I found that out while reading this Washington Post article posted on Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) site. According to the article, Tancredo is the only federal lawmaker with his own blog that accepts comments.

    Even though a lot of lawmakers don't have their own blogs with comments, many will post at other blogs and receive comments there. Obama posted a diary about the Roberts nomination over at Daily Kos, and got over 800 responses. His followup diary got over 400 more.