Reasons you don’t want to call your representatives:
You don’t want to bother them. Your elected officials in Washington are there to represent you; your interests, your opinions, your wishes–you elected them and you pay their salary and it is a pretty big salary.
The compensation for most Senators, Representatives, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico is $174,000 [1].
You don’t have the time. It takes less than 5 minutes to call your Senator or House Representatives.
You don’t know who your representatives are.
Find your House Representatives HERE, just type your zip code in the search bar.
Find your Senator HERE, just use the search function at the top of the page.
You don’t know how to reach them. Use the links above to find your representatives. Their contact information will be available on those sites. You can email them, but rumor has it phone calls are more effective. Each call must get logged and recorded.
Why don’t you try it out? Call you House and Senate Representatives and let them know that you oppose the AHCA/TRUMPCARE. Please.
That was easy. Now, do you want to get in touch with the White House? Call Trump directly and tell him how you feel about his policies. Well, the call may not directly go to Trump but your call and message will be on the record—or you could just tweet at him but you will run the risk of being blocked by him on twitter. You know how thin skinned he is. You can think of getting blocked on twitter by the President of the US as a badge of the #RESISTANCE
Resources:
1 Congressional Salaries and Allowances: In Brief, July 14, 2016, https://www.senate.gov/CRSpubs/9c14ec69-c4e4-4bd8-8953-f73daa1640e4.pdf
