Ads on Sites Such as YouTube Violated Old Ban Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 7, 2008; Page A19 Members of the House, relax. You will still be allowed to post YouTube videos of yourself on your official congressional Web sites, so all your interested constituents can click and see you pounding the podium and championing a bill for your district. A low-profile House committee adopted rules last week that permit members to use video material from Web sites such as YouTube on their own official sites. It's a colossal step into the 21st-century world of online communication that came after leaders recognized that new technology was overtaking the rules of an 18th-century-vintage congressional commission that long governed how lawmakers may talk to their constituents. The problem was that all the video sites that...
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