Couldn't Make It to a Town Hall? It's Coming to You

Over the past few weeks, we've seen citizens using YouTube to make their voices heard about health care and to amplify their interactions with members of Congress. In light of this trend, we're reviving our Representative of the Week program -- but with a slightly different twist.

The latest Rep of the Week is Congressman Bob Latta (R-OH), a co-chair of the GOP New Media caucus who's used his YouTube channel to speak out against the White House's health care proposal. But instead of the Congressman posing a question to you and asking you to respond, as per past Reps of the Week, he wants you to ask him questions about the issues that are important to you. Congressman Latta plans to respond to the top-rated questions in an in-person interview tomorrow:



You only have 24 hours to submit your question about any issue through Google Moderator and to vote on your favorite questions from others, so get started here. Then, check back tomorrow to see how Congressman Latta responds.

More health care protest footage, citizen debates on YouTube

YouTube remains a central hub of the health care debate as townhall events and protests about the issue continue across the country.

In the past few days, homemade signs at the townhalls have sparked quite a bit of controversy. One protester was thrown out of a Cleveland Heights, OH townhall and questioned by police for waving a poster that likened President Obama to Hitler. A scuffle also erupted at a Missouri event when someone ripped up a poster of Rosa Parks. This video of the event has received over 100,000 views:



In addition, the number of vlogs about health care has risen dramatically as citizens feel the need to respond to the townhall footage that is being uploaded. For example, a doctor sounds off about why the American health care system is the best in the world and shouldn't be changed:



Meanwhile, this young man expresses his pro-reform views by discussing the benefits of the Canadian health care system: