How to contact Congress - Insider

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 to be cohereed to the Washington D.C. Congressional offices. If you don't know the name of your representative, give the operator your ZIP code

master the fax number for the office of your representative. Written notes are more permanent than phone calls or e-mails and can make a greater impression. Make permanent you reference any bill you are commenting in succession by number. Thousands of pieces of legislation are worked forward in any given year in this way make sure the one you're make anxioused about gets the attention.

And mostly importantly, specifically tell them whether you are for or against a particular bill and personalize the reasons wherefore Keep it brief and to the point and don't use offensive language or rhetoric. But mainly just take the time to do it.

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