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- From: ae547@yfn.ysu.edu (Ronda Hauben)
- Subject: Re: [misc.activism.progressive] Clinton Office Requests Comments
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:58:51 GMT
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- In a previous article, gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) says:
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- >In article <C03IE8.D9M@vcd.hp.com> edmoore@vcd.hp.com (Ed Moore) writes:
- >:A good awk or perl script should be able to select all the email messages on
- >:whatever topic the congresscritter wants to accept input on at the moment.
- >:The rest could go into the bit bucket unread by human eyes. :-)
- >
- >If they were serious about lay e-access to congress, mail to the office
- >of a congresscritter could be gatewayed into a local newsgroup, and read
- >with a threaded newsreader that made it obvious what had and hadn't been
- >answered. Flunkeys could answer the mundane stuff and everyone would
- >see that it had been answered.
- >
- >G
-
- And everyone would SEE what hadn't been answered :-)
-
- That's the nice part of the above proposal.
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- Right now it's fruitless for commonfolk to write to Congress because the
- mail is basically ignored.
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- Even when they open a case, nothing is done.
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- It would seem that there needs to be a public monitoring of what goes
- to a Congress person and what they do about it.
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- Also, it would seem helpful to have email access to the Congress people
- themselves and to have them have to answer the email - as then there would
- be some basis for them to decide what laws to support or even to propose.
-
- Right now its the people with money and clout who get laws introduced
- or supported, while commonfolk are left out of the whole process.
-
- And the process is not working.
-
- Also, if there were discussion via usenet of the bills that were needed
- or the bills that were being introduced, there would be a basis to
- sort out the strengths, weakenesses, etc. of the bills, versus the
- current situation where the public has no knowledge of most or all
- of what goes on.
-
- If anyone has any suggestions about how to get email access to Congress,
- that would be helpful.
-
-
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