Live from Washington DC, It's Friday Night!
By Nancy Scola, 08/01/2008 - 5:31pm

Via the magic that is Twitter and Qik, we're being treated to a front-row seat to what is in all likelihood a congressional first -- members of the House refusing to leave the floor, and inviting reporters, tourists, and staffers to join the party. At issue are legislative proposals to allow domestic offshore oil drilling, and Republicans are staging the protest to demand that the House take up issue. We'll point you to some coverage of this on-going situation:

DC doesn't quite seem to know what to make of this one-of-a-kind situation, and, of course, new social technologies like Qik and Twitter make it all the more ground-breaking. What do you make of the protest and how news of it is filtering out online?

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Washington, D.C. (pronounced /ˈwɒʃɪŋtən diːsiː/) (formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C.) is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. The City of Washington used to be a separate municipality within the District of Columbia.

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