{"id":665,"date":"2004-02-05T01:27:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=665"},"modified":"2018-08-10T06:56:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T11:56:37","slug":"665","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/05\/665\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Beltway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Wizbang!, Kevin Aylward describes what happens when you <a href=\"http:\/\/wizbangblog.com\/archives\/001605.php\" target=\"new\">write to your member of Congress<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Inbound letters and calls are \u2018issue coded\u2019. For example, if you write a letter to your representative in which you urge the member to support gun control legislation, the staff members who open and read the mail enter a record of the correspondence and select a gun control issue code. If you address multiple topics you get multiple codes.<\/p>\n<p>The staffer at that point has the option of creating a response (which as I recall they usually do) by picking one or more items from a list of issue talking points.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep that in mind when any of you (El Guapo) write to your representative.  Your call is important to us&#8230;.please stay on the line and you will be answered in the order your call was received&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>It also explains an experience my mother had writing to her representative, Richard &#8220;Il DicK&#8221; Gephardt.  She wrote complaining that her particular military command was becoming a fully non-smoking environment; his reply was that he was really trying to keep the command open.<\/p>\n<p>She voted for Wheelehan, Federer, and would have even written in her dog&#8217;s name on even-numbered years to keep from voting for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Wizbang!, Kevin Aylward describes what happens when you write to your member of Congress: Inbound letters and calls are \u2018issue coded\u2019. For example, if you write a letter to your representative in which you urge the member to support gun control legislation, the staff members who open and read the mail enter a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22577,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/22577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}