John Boehner's office orders shutdown of C-SPAN cameras and audio after attempt to force vote on payroll tax deduction

Alex Seitz-Wald of ThinkProgress reports that just after Democrats attempted to force an up-or-down vote on the Senate-passed payroll tax holiday extension, C-SPAN's...

...mic appeared to cut out. A few seconds after that, the video feed switched away from the House floor to a still image of the Capitol Dome. It appears someone in House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) office cut the feed, as C-SPAN tweeted afterwards: “C-SPAN has no control over the U.S. House TV cameras – the Speaker of the House does.”