{"id":224,"date":"2008-09-30T15:41:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T22:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=224"},"modified":"2008-09-30T15:41:32","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T22:41:32","slug":"breaking-congress-limits-constituents-emails-facebook-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/09\/30\/breaking-congress-limits-constituents-emails-facebook-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Congress limits constituents’ emails. Facebook to the rescue?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jordy Yager reports in The HIll<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The House is limiting e-mails from the public to prevent its websites from crashing due to the enormous amount of mail being submitted on the financial bailout bill.<\/p>\n

As a result, some constituents may get a ‘try back at a later time’ response if they use the House website to e-mail their lawmakers about the bill defeated in the House on Monday in a 205-228 vote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A question I hope people are asking: why did they underinvest so badly in machine capacity?\u00c2\u00a0 And while we’re on the subject, am I the only person who notices that voice mail boxes get filled up by 8 p.m. in the evening?<\/p>\n

It’s almost like they don’t want to hear from us or something …<\/p>\n

Fortunately, a lot of politicians have Facebook pages.\u00c2\u00a0 For example, here’s a thread I set up on Nancy Pelosi’s discussion board a couple of days ago<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Facebook is pretty scalable; I bet they could easily handle a few thousand messages per politician per day.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe more.<\/p>\n

List-in-progress of politicians’ Facebook pages here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 If you know other links (on Facebook or MySpace), please add them!<\/p>\n

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Jordy Yager reports in The HIll: The House is limiting e-mails from the public to prevent its websites from crashing due to the enormous amount of mail being submitted on the financial bailout bill. As a result, some constituents may get a ‘try back at a later time’ response if they use the House website […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}