How to contact your federal employees:

How to contact your Washington employees:

The Friends Committee on National Legislation states (as of 2/8/02), “Although there is a continuing need for communication with Congress, postal mail is still not getting through very well. (A result of the anthrax incidents.) At this time, email and faxes are much more effective tools for getting your message to members of Congress.”

Recent information has it that letters to local offices of senators and congressmen get to them more quickly than letters to their Washington offices.

The FCNL creates staff-written letters which can be mailed, emailed or faxed to members of Congress or the President. The fax method is probably the most effective since Congressional representatives have been swamped with email, to the point where some of them ignore it.

The FCNL web page http://www.fcnl.org/ makes it easy to contact your Washington employees. It allows you to select one of several FCNL-composed messages, modify it if you would like, or compose your own message. This message is then sent by email, fax, or letter (you choose). A copy is sent to you by email if you wish. The website can “remember” your name and address and “fill in those blanks” for you.

For example to express your views on budget priorities, here are the steps: (1) With your browser go to the FCNL Legislative Action Center , http://capwiz.com/fconl/home/, click on “Issues and Legislation,” click on “Action Alerts and Updates,” select “express your views on budget priorities,” fill in your ZIP code, select your intended recipient(s) from the senators and your representative who are shown, choose the medium (email or fax or letter – fax is best these days), tailor the message to your liking, fill in your name and address and email (if the FCNL site has not filled it in for you already, having “remembered” it), and click “Send message.”

Note: This is only one of many paths possible on the website. (Since the FCNL provides the website and sends the fax or letter free, remember to make a contribution to this great organization! 245 2^nd St NE, Washington DC 20002-5795.)

Here is contact information by which you can call, fax, or write these employees:

Rep. John Olver, 1^st MA district

Washington Office:

1027 Longworth House Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20515-2101

Phone: 202/225-5335

Fax: 202/226-1224

Main District Office:

78 Center Street

Pittsfield, MA 01201

Phone: 413/442-0946

Fax: 413/443-2792

Website: www.house.gov/olver

Email: olver@mail.house.gov

Rep. Richard Neal, 2^nd MA district

Washington Office:

2133 Rayburn House Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20515-2102

Phone: 202/225-5601

Fax: 202/225-8112

Main District Office:

1550 Main St., Room 309

Springfield, MA 01103

Phone: 413/785-0325

Fax: 413/785-0604

Website: www.house.gov/neal

Senator Edward Kennedy

Washington Office:

317 Russell Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20510-2101

Phone: 202/224-4543

Fax: 202/224-2417

Main District Office:

2400 John F. Kennedy Federal Building

Boston, MA 02203

Phone: 617/565-3170

Fax: 617/565-3183

Website: kennedy.senate.gov

Email: senator@kennedy.senate.gov

Senator John Kerry

Washington Office:

304 Russell Senate Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20510-2102

Phone: 202/224-2742

Fax: 202/224-8525

Main District Office:

One Bowdoin Square

Boston, MA 02114

Phone: 617/565-8519

Fax: 617/248-3870

Website: kerry.senate.gov

Email: john_kerry@kerry.senate.gov