Russian news site interrupts C-SPAN feed of House floor
C -SPAN says its online feed of House floor action was briefly interrupted Thursday by programming for the Russian news site RT.
The network says the problem was likely a routing issue, because RT is one of the networks that C-SPAN regularly monitors.
Spokesman Howard Mortman says C-SPAN’s website was replaced by RT for about 10 minutes. He says the network is “investigating and troubleshooting this occurrence.”
The programming glitch came hours after a power outage interrupted a Senate confirmation hearing for Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo to head the CIA. The hearing reconvened in a different room.
The architect of the Capitol’s office says a local power company “de-energized” a system that feeds power to the Hart Senate Office Building. The office says the company, Pepco, quickly restored the lost power.
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