YouTube Caption Audit: U.S. Senators

Sep 07, 2015

ID YouTube Channel Party State # Videos Duration
(seconds)		 # Captioned % Captioned Mean # of Views
per Video		 Duration Uncaptioned
(seconds)
1 Jeff Sessions Republican Alabama 499 165,961 2 0.4% 3,464 165,699
2 Richard Shelby Republican Alabama 153 43,949 0 0.0% 176 43,949
3 Lisa Murkowski Republican Alaska 810 483,798 14 1.7% 633 470,911
4 Dan Sullivan Republican Alaska 43 18,213 0 0.0% 191 18,213
5 John McCain Republican Arizona 897 499,538 10 1.1% 1,533 493,314
6 Jeff Flake Republican Arizona 187 56,907 0 0.0% 406 56,907
7 Tom Cotton Republican Arkansas 124 45,185 0 0.0% 3,208 45,185
8 John Boozman Republican Arkansas 283 67,120 8 2.8% 383 64,975
9 Dianne Feinstein Democrat California 147 134,323 0 0.0% 1,224 134,323
10 Barbara Boxer Democrat California 159 96,429 0 0.0% 640 96,429
11 Cory Gardner Republican Colorado 23 7,534 0 0.0% 530 7,534
12 Michael Bennet Democrat Colorado 269 106,872 0 0.0% 498 106,872
13 Richard Blumenthal Democrat Connecticut 204 24,622 0 0.0% 258 24,622
14 Chris Murphy Democrat Connecticut 125 41,433 0 0.0% 360 41,433
15 Tom Carper Democrat Delaware 240 16,644 0 0.0% 270 16,644
16 Chris Coons Democrat Delaware 421 154,829 1 0.2% 371 154,541
17 Bill Nelson Democrat Florida 230 71,525 0 0.0% 3,143 71,525
18 Marco Rubio Republican Florida 834 445,341 2 0.2% 8,352 443,999
19 David Purdue Republican Georgia 60 17,787 0 0.0% 264 17,787
20 Johnny Isakson Republican Georgia 368 112,619 1 0.3% 480 112,494
21 Mazie Hirono Democrat Hawaii 204 61,376 0 0.0% 171 61,376
22 Brian Schatz Democrat Hawaii 52 13,956 0 0.0% 204 13,956
23 Mike Crapo Republican Idaho 352 130,193 1 0.3% 205 129,526
24 Jim Risch Republican Idaho 174 53,828 3 1.7% 295 53,151
25 Dick Durbin Democrat Illinois 874 290,931 0 0.0% 1,009 290,931
26 Mark Kirk Republican Illinois 263 63,219 2 0.8% 1,454 62,790
27 Joe Donnelly Democrat Indiana 59 16,272 0 0.0% 229 16,272
28 Dan Coats Republican Indiana 440 162,272 1 0.2% 191 161,849
29 Chuck Grassley Republican Iowa 565 233,007 1 0.2% 951 231,750
30 Joni Ernst Republican Iowa 49 10,206 0 0.0% 220 10,206
31 Pat Roberts Republican Kansas 252 82,508 2 0.8% 634 81,975
32 Jerry Moran Republican Kansas 94 18,971 0 0.0% 339 18,971
33 Mitch McConnell Republican Kentucky 842 301,209 3 0.4% 1,062 300,086
34 Rand Paul Republican Kentucky 695 424,816 43 6.2% 24,865 407,630
35 Bill Cassidy Republican Louisiana 42 12,092 1 2.4% 68 11,876
36 David Vitter Republican Louisiana 656 166,864 0 0.0% 400 166,864
37 Angus King Independent Maine 201 107,284 0 0.0% 247 107,284
38 Susan Collins Republican Maine 241 71,056 0 0.0% 464 71,056
39 Barbara Mikulski Democrat Maryland 290 150,832 0 0.0% 324 150,832
40 Ben Cardin Democrat Maryland 368 174,588 1 0.3% 136 174,387
41 Elizabeth Warren Democrat Massachusetts 89 15,645 2 2.2% 27,021 15,319
42 Ed Markey Democrat Massachusetts 636 189,612 13 2.0% 949 185,362
43 Gary Peters Democrat Michigan 199 33,500 0 0.0% 122 33,500
44 Debbie Stabenow Democrat Michigan 55 14,148 0 0.0% 1,028 14,148
45 Amy Klobuchar Democrat Minnesota 42 31,483 0 0.0% 199 31,483
46 Al Franken Democrat Minnesota 202 126,824 1 0.5% 3,509 124,584
47 Thad Cochran Republican Mississippi 5 2,312 0 0.0% 213 2,312
48 Roger Wicker Republican Mississippi 307 94,247 1 0.3% 356 93,952
49 Claire McCaskill Democrat Missouri 350 91,051 3 0.9% 1,204 90,613
50 Roy Blunt Republican Missouri 763 240,975 0 0.0% 304 240,975
51 Steve Daines Republican Montana 76 18,670 0 0.0% 153 18,670
52 Jon Tester Democrat Montana 217 114,984 0 0.0% 375 114,984
53 Ben Sasse Republican Nebraska 100 37,361 0 0.0% 220 37,361
54 Deb Fischer Republican Nebraska 65 33,771 0 0.0% 273 33,771
55 Harry Reid Democrat Nevada 578 126,529 208 36.0% 4,855 92,145
56 Dean Heller Republican Nevada 24 4,041 0 0.0% 303 4,041
57 Jeanne Shaheen Democrat New Hampshire 263 87,987 0 0.0% 186 87,987
58 Kelly Ayotte Republican New Hampshire 499 173,852 8 1.6% 326 171,717
59 Cory Booker Democrat New Jersey 26 14,429 0 0.0% 2,160 14,429
60 Bob Menendez Democrat New Jersey 935 472,208 0 0.0% 744 472,208
61 Tom Udall Democrat New Mexico 342 144,204 105 30.7% 394 113,532
62 Martin Heinrich Democrat New Mexico 141 34,035 0 0.0% 197 34,035
63 Chuck Schumer Democrat New York 93 29,266 0 0.0% 826 29,266
64 Kirsten Gillibrand Democrat New York 227 122,549 0 0.0% 1,889 122,549
65 Richard Burr Republican North Carolina 206 67,467 2 1.0% 427 66,131
66 Thom Tills Republican North Carolina 24 7,277 2 8.3% 313 6,884
67 John Hoeven Republican North Dakota 100 37,361 0 0.0% 220 37,361
68 Heidi Heitkamp Democrat North Dakota 205 104,541 0 0.0% 107 104,541
69 Sherrod Brown Democrat Ohio 130 90,574 17 13.1% 257 82,708
70 Rob Portman Republican Ohio 435 137,867 12 2.8% 453 134,574
71 Jim Inhofe Republican Oklahoma 820 304,270 18 2.2% 3,418 290,011
72 James Lankford Republican Oklahoma 71 34,909 0 0.0% 2,193 34,909
73 Ron Wyden Democrat Oregon 357 159,828 2 0.6% 1,452 159,331
74 Jeff Merkley Democrat Oregon 205 53,987 0 0.0% 642 53,987
75 Bob Casey, Jr. Democrat Pennsylvania 170 72,017 0 0.0% 285 72,017
76 Pat Toomey Republican Pennsylvania 371 153,221 17 4.6% 407 142,608
77 Jack Reed Democrat Rhode Island 264 117,159 22 8.3% 223 97,345
78 Sheldon Whitehouse Democrat Rhode Island 413 266,468 0 0.0% 1,792 266,468
79 Lindsey Graham Republican South Carolina 791 419,854 26 3.3% 1,390 409,226
80 Tim Scott Republican South Carolina 129 47,268 0 0.0% 877 47,268
81 Mike Rounds Republican South Dakota 19 4,180 0 0.0% 99 4,180
82 John Thune Republican South Dakota 840 409,196 2 0.2% 270 408,690
83 Lamar Alexander Republican Tennessee 375 186,673 0 0.0% 408 186,673
84 Bob Corker Republican Tennessee 330 99,778 0 0.0% 556 99,778
85 John Cornyn Republican Texas 660 287,597 8 1.2% 1,185 284,124
86 Ted Cruz Republican Texas 500 329,597 0 0.0% 12,219 329,597
87 Orrin Hatch Republican Utah 603 295,444 3 0.5% 567 294,596
88 Mike Lee Republican Utah 802 327,503 0 0.0% 1,482 327,503
89 Patrick Leahy Democrat Vermont 385 111,509 2 0.5% 209 111,300
90 Bernie Sanders Independent Vermont 1,054 461,495 0 0.0% 23,482 461,495
91 Mark Warner Democrat Virginia 495 156,426 0 0.0% 316 156,426
92 Tim Kaine Democrat Virginia 213 64,432 0 0.0% 139 64,432
93 Patty Murray Democrat Washington 233 86,346 0 0.0% 678 86,346
94 Maria Cantwell Democrat Washington 354 152,516 0 0.0% 452 152,516
95 Joe Manchin Democrat West Virginia 268 93,587 0 0.0% 394 93,587
96 Shelly Moore Capito Republican West Virginia 41 9,154 0 0.0% 158 9,154
97 Ron Johnson Republican Wisconsin 810 388,039 18 2.2% 776 380,716
98 Tammy Baldwin Democrat Wisconsin 97 38,026 0 0.0% 173 38,026
99 Mike Enzi Republican Wyoming 286 61,737 1 0.3% 202 61,550
100 John Barrasso Republican Wyoming 877 392,307 0 0.0% 233 392,307
TOTALS 32,956 13,439,402 589 1.8% -- 13,237,432
DEMOCRAT TOTALS 11,826 4,570,502 377 3.2% -- 4,469,317
REPUBLICAN TOTALS 19,875 8,300,121 212 1.1% -- 8,199,336