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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: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:42:17 GMT
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- In a previous article, wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (Bill Stewart +1-908-949-0705) says:
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- >In article <1hj8hdINN92d@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> au329@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ronda Hauben) writes:
- > >>Is there any E-Mail address for Congress? I was told by Senator Paul
- > >>Simon's Office that The U.S. Congress has email communication
- > >>internally among Congress but that the public is NOT ALLOWED to
- > >>have access to it.
- > >>I want to be able to send E-Mail to Simon's Office. Does anyone
- > >>know of any way to do so?
- > >>It seems archaic that there is no electronic access via email for
- > >>the public to the U.S. Congress.
- >
- >
- >My Congresscritter gets about 1 million letters per year.
- >Email to the office would be practical; email to Himself wouldn't.
- >It's just too many letters.
- >
- >The staff tries to read them all :-), and only extremely interesting
- >ones get passed on to him for reading, though many routine things like
- >"why is my social security check late" or "can my kid go to West Point"
- >get handed to him for signing. Letters obviously coming from
- >organized letter-writing campaigns get piled together and the
- >pro and con piles are mainly compared by how many pounds or inches
- >of mail the different sides can generate .....
- >letters that appear to be from real individuals do better.
- >Stuff with money attached gets more attention :-)
- >
- >Telegrams get attention, because they cost more than paper-mail and
- >are generally short; faxes do ok, pre-printed-postcards get piled.
- >I'd guess that email to a congressional office could get managed
- >adequately, though it will take a while before they learn to give it
- >treatment similar to what they give paper-mail.
-
-
- Well, it seems that there is a real problem with U.S. Congressmen
- getting any feedback from the people they are supposed to represent.
-
- Email access maybe would begin to bring them into modern times
- as maybe it wouldn't be so easy to ignore the effects of the
- laws they pass on the commonfolk.
-
-
- I had tried to get in touch with various Congresspeople for a few
- years to demonstrate some of the horrors that some of their legislation
- led to when the Job Training Partnership Act legislation was used
- to cut out computer programming classes at the Ford Rouge Plant
- in Dearborn, Michigan, and then to cut out programming classes in
- local and state high schools as well.
-
- Meanwhile, my Congressman was giving private meetings of all
- types to Keating so he could sidetrack the regulations.
-
- So there is a definite problem.
-
- Maybe any email to Congress has to be public.
-
- ronda
-
- >--
- ># Pray for peace; Bill
- ># Bill Stewart 1-908-949-0705 wcs@anchor.att.com AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 Holmdel NJ
- ># !egassem terces eht dnuof ev'uoY !snoitalutargnoC
- >
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