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Political Representatives, Washington DC
Contacting Your Political Representatives

MAKING WAVES, June/July 1998


How To Contact Your Representatives and Senators:
(In order of effectiveness)
  1. Organize other people to do numbers 1-5. Make it very clear that you're an organizaed group, that you all vote, and that you know how to be heard.
  2. Send a "handwritten" letter. Nothing else quite says- "this is important to me".
  3. Overnight a printed letter, or fax it. It will generally be noted that you care enough to spend the few extra dollars.
  4. Send a printed letter, regular mail.
  5. Write an original e-mail message.
  6. Forward an e-mail message to a member of Congress. Congressional e-mail addresses can be located at http://thomas.loc.gov.

** Call the office of the member and ask for the Legislative Director or the Legislative Assistant who's tracking the issue you're interested in. That should get you straight to the staffer who's on point.**
U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

-or-

Write to:

Senator___________
United States Senate
Washington DC 20510

Representative___________
United States House of Representatives
Washington DC 20515


 


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