Each member of the House and Senate has a web site with their contact information on it – phone, mail, and a web form in place of email due to spam issues.  A directory of Senators and a Write Your Representative page make finding them easy.  Knowing your Zip+4 will help if your zip code is spread across multiple House districts.

You will generally get a reply (assuming you are in the area the legislator represents – communications from outside the state or district are generally not responded to), but it is usually a canned response crafted for the particular bill or issue. Sometimes it can even be rather hard to tell if the legislator agrees or disagrees with you. One key phrase to look for is “I will keep your views in mind.” The rest of that sentence is “when I vote the other way.”

It gets really sad when you try to continue a dialog and get the same canned response back to your questioning of phrases from the first response. At least that is how things go in Georgia,where Congressmen utter such memorable quotes as “I voted for torture!” and campaign to have the Ten Commandments posted it courthouses even though they cannot remember what they are.

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