#Surprise: Congress not so slow when it comes to using social media

The snail?s-pace negotiations about raising the nation?s debt ceiling are a good reminder that Congress rarely does anything quickly. But the House and the Senate have managed in recent years to move forward with relative speed on at least one front: joining Facebook and Twitter.

That?s the finding of a study being issued Tuesday by the Congressional Management Foundation (CMF), a nonprofit group that studies and works to improve the way congressional offices operate. The report, titled ?#SocialCongress: Perceptions and Use of Social Media on Capitol Hill,? offers the results of a survey of Hill staffers about how they and their bosses use ? or don?t use ? these tools.

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