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It's the 3G connection used by the public in one of the basement floors of the capital building that has low bandwidth. The capital has its own internal network
by tomatotomato37 8y ago
It's the 3G connection used by the public in one of the basement floors of the capital building that has low bandwidth. The capital has its own internal network for congressmen and their staffers, they just don't let random reporters connect to it
- jeremyjbowers 8y agoEven worse (weirder), the Senate bans electronic devices on the floor. If a Senator wants info, they have to sprint out one of the doors to the lobby where they have an aide waiting with an iPad (usually).
- jeremyjbowers 8y agoThe House allows iPads on the floor, and reporters are allowed to bring laptops into the gallery. It's how we get our live votes transcribed! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/insider/how-we-beat-the-house-in-tallying-the-health-care-vote.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/insider/how-we-beat-the-h...
- walshemj 8y agoInteresting quite different to the HOC where the result of a division (vote) is read out quite soon after. I have worked at large 500+ delegate conferences using parliamentary procedures and now they often use electronic systems for both teller and card votes which is much faster
- walshemj 8y agoDo you mean the paper work concerned with the days business or being able to look up information quickly before they speak in a debate?