I'm annoyed

[FormerOstrich]

I understand why our elected officials value input from their constituents more so than those that are not. However, I believe when they are on committees, such as the House Oversight Committee, we should be able to reach them more easily.

I wanted to fire off an email to Jason Chaffetz to express my anger at his actions to intimidate Walter Schaub. But he only accepts emails from his district. That doesn't sit well with me.

Similarly, I wanted to praise Rep. John Lewis for his comments, but he doesn't accept emails outside of his district either.

sigh...that's it...just wanted to say I think they should be more available to the public.

[pkdu]

1. Couldn't agree more FO..well put. nt

[delisen]

2. Power without any accountability is tyranny.Would it help if there were

a place to send such feedback, a national center of some kind.

[NBachers]

3. On a few occasions, I've looked up restaurants in the offender's district & used that as my address.

It went through fine.

http://www.moabhappenings.com/restaurants.htm

From Chaffertz' Congressional home page: more skullduggery - "Chaffetz Resolution Aims to Move Federal Agencies Out of Washington, DC"

[murielm99]

5. Yes. I agree.

Find a zip code in their district and send an email. That works.

[Hortensis]

4. Good for you, but maybe think of it as making themselves

more accessible to those they are most immediately supposed to represent. I imagine even that corrupt thug Chaffetz started out accepting emails from outside until they grew to such a volume that they buried everything else.

Btw, Comey colluded with Chaffetz to leak his letter to Congress to the press to subvert the election. Maybe, just maybe Chaffetz will end up being sacrificed on this fire as part of a GOP "cleansing." We know big crimes have been committed. And yesterday the Senate was finally forced to open an investigation. Chaffetz undoubtedly got that message at least.

[2naSalit]

9. That would be a nice start

to the long parade of heads that should roll.

[Hortensis]

10. I'd watch from home, maybe dig out the knitting needles

to get into the spirit though...

[Auggie]

6. How to Make Your Congressman Listen to You:

http://www.attn.com/stories/12768/former-congressional-staffer-explains-how-to-make-congressman-listen

(Bottom line: Call the district office)

[yurbud]

7. you can still call or FAX. I've used a free fax service, Faxzero.com, a lot for this

I like the idea of a piece of paper showing up in their office that at least one person will look at.

[TexasProgresive]

8. While that is bad what is worse is being unable to email your rep

because the system uses zipcodes. I live in a particular congressional district but my zipcode is in another district. It doesn't matter if I use the whole 9 digit zipcode. The problem of not being able to contact committee members is wrong. There should be a separate mailbox list by committees that will receive mail from anywhere in the country. I complained about both issues to the congressional webmaster way back in the bUSH years to no avail. I think THEY like it like this.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. You need to contact the committee, not Chaffetz directly.

https://oversight.house.gov/contact/

[sweetapogee]

12. as far as our national

government is concerned, you contact your member of Congress or your two Senators. Beyond that you contact the Whitehouse. Being a member of a committee is nice and all but committees set up bills and/or tweek them for final votes to the full chamber. That is where your member of Congress decides yes or no. Also, if you feel that you have a message to send to a committee then you will get batter traction by having your members of Congress or Senators convey your message. It doesn't matter what party a committee member belongs to that individual is representing his state or congressional district not the whole country. Sorry if this offends.