https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-surprised-learn-bombs-used-163027611.html

  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    To add onto cowbee: Write or email your federal reps and request a response in writing. They're constitutionally required to respond, and you can complain to the Deputy Chief of Staff if they don't.

    99% of the time you'll be blown off with a boiler-plate non-answer, and 1% of the time you'll be directed to a staffer who will listen to you, and then throw everything you said into the trash.

    Depending on the issue, there is a non-zero chance they'll pull strings, a buddy got his medical debt waived months after he had like half a million dollars of surgery.

    But the point of this exercise is to show that you are entirely disconnected from the policy-making process.