Contacting Congress

U.S. CONGRESS - CALL 1-800-504-0031 OR 202-224-3121 OR 1-800-343-3222 The new number is: 1-800-361-5222 (90001). When you call the number, follow the prompts. When asked for your 5 letter zip code, enter the number 90001. You will be connected to the main capitol switchboard. Just ask for the congressman or the senator you wish to speak to. If you enter your home zip code, you will be connected directly to your Congress "CRITTER". (Congressman or Senator)

Contact Congress via the net - Elected Net:
http://www.hoboes.com/html/Politics/electednet/

Netline To Congress - Question of the Day
http://www.netline-to-congress.com/

The Best Congress Money Can Buy http://mojones.com/COINOP_CONGRESS/data_viewer/data_viewer.html

SENATE:
http://www.senate.gov

SENATE EMAIL ADDRESS:
http://www.senate.gov/senator/membmail.html OR htttp://www.senate.gov/senator/state.html

Senate Judiciary Committee members with contact information:
http://www.senate.gov/committee/judiciary.html

Senate - send email:
http://www.freecongress.org/jsmp/ContactSenators.htm

Letter to Senators

http://members.foothills.net/ricefile/index.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES -
http://www.house.gov

House Of Representatives (EMAIL)
http://www.house.gov/writerep/

House Judiciary Committee members with contact information:
http://www.house.gov/judiciary/mem105.htm

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
http://speakernews.house.gov/asknewt/

QUICK SEARCH TEXT OF BILLS 105th CONGRESS:
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.html?66,9

HOUSE - DOWNLOADING BILL TEXT
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/billdwnloadhelp.html

CONTACTING CONGRESS
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

ElectedNet! will allow you to search for a single member by name, state, just one party, etc. or you can e-mail all members of Congress at once. It provides an effective way to quickly get your message out and uses your e-mail program not some "fill in the blanks" type interface. Using this method you will be able to use your spell checker and retain a copy of the messages sent for future reference.

In order to improve the impact of your message you should format your e-mail like a standard mail letter to congress (minus the TO: section) and INCLUDE your return mailing address. Most members of Congress will not reply via e-mail but by U.S. Postal Service, so your return address
is critical. This is probably to prevent someone from changing an e-mail reply and forwarding without their approval. Even if you send a letter (e-mail) to a Congressional member who is not
in your voting district, they will usually respond and track the number of letters for or against an issue. With this web site it is easy to just "click" on another name to be included in your letter to Congress and the more letters some staff person has to send out the greater the
impact your message will have during the weekly Congressional office staff meetings.

http://www.hoboes.com/html/Politics/electednet/