First Facebook Livestream By Congress Is Today, Wednesday

The House of Representatives will broadcast live on Facebook for the first time today as Republican John Boehner gets sworn in as the new Speaker.

Congress will broadcast live on Facebook as the new House Speaker John Boehner gets sworn in, a first for the social network.

Today at noon EST, live coverage of the first day’s floor proceedings in the House begin streaming on Facebook. Log in and you can also catch his first speech as Speaker of the House.

A video of the events will streamon Facebook page “A Pledge to America,” which already has plenty of preview content mentioning Boehner.

In addition to Facebook, Boehner plans to use Twitter to share news and comments, but his Twitter name is changing to reflect his new position and his staff isn’t releasing the new Twitter handle just yet.

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