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Contacting the Senate is a little harder since they don't have as nice a web-feedback engine (each senator has a different system), but it is still pretty dang simple.

Everytime this appears we get a bunch of "we'll show them posters" threatening all kinds of interesting punishments. Forget it.

If/When the law passes each attempt to hack into their computers for any reason will be met with the recently passes "capital crime" of hacking punishment.

You are an individual. They are a corporation.
You are a terrorist. They are protecting the rights of American copyright holders.
You will get 5 - 25 years. They will get new releases on how good a job they are doing stopping these kids from stealing their products.
They donate large sums of money to congress. You are listed as a non-voting demographic. [Better than opposition party or extremist, you are a non-entity.]

I will be surprised if this makes the nightly news anywhere. They want this to be a non-story and will pay plenty to keep it that way. Any story that does arise will be spinning the "protecting America against copyright theft."

If you really want to do something, take five minutes, right now and FAX your representatives [You could try email. Are they any better at reading them today than last year?].

Be polite, be firm and be specific. DMCA got passed because many people expected someone else(our representatives) to see the lunacy in the approach. This just proves we can never underestimate the ability of smart people to do dumb things with the right incentive.

Here are the contacts:
Senate Locator
House of Representative Locator

Do it now

May I suggest that while we are discussing this abomination of a bill here on slashdot we also take the time to open our word processors and write letters to our representatives?

Remember that technically they are supposed to represent US, not the person/corporation with the biggest checkbook.

It may also do well to write your senators -- A similar bill will likely start up there eventualy, or if this mess passes the house it will wind up in the senate eventually.
Find your Representative and your Senators and make your opinion known.

(BTW - remember that paper letters are far more difficult to ignore than outraged emails. Especially en masse.)

Where do I send an e-mail? Where do I send a hand written letter?

If you want to contact those 535 Americans who have the power to get rid of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's circumvention ban once and for all, you may contact them here:

Write Your Representative

Write Your Senators

I would like to congratulate all of you who write eloquent replies on Slashdot, however you need to write letters to your "elected officials".

Myself, everytime I read an article on Slashdot which makes my blood boil and pertains to privacy, civil liberties, anti-consumer electronic devices, and/or bad technology legislation, I contact my legislators via email, fax, or snail mail.

Your elected official needs and wants to hear from you on the issues! If they get a mere 10 letters, faxes, or emails on a topic it raises a "red" flag and forces them to look at the issue before unknowing upsetting their constituency.

I urge you to contact these people and let them know what you think on a weekly basis. America is still "Government by the people, for the People."

While you are at it, register to vote!

Lastly, we always hear talk about buying legislation in the form of campaign contributions. Believe it or not, it doesn't cost all that much to buy legislation and once we all get in the habit of contacting our legislative officials and voting, we can donate money to a PAC, donate to campaigns and hire lobbyists. Then the Slashdotter will truly be running with the big dogs, but political involvement has to begin small.

Here are some helpful websites to guide you:

U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Senate Congressional News

I fear if we do not act and unite soon, that we will lose control of the Internet and consumer electronics in the name of Patriotism and anti-piracy.

They just know they introduced their bills way too late and don't want to wait.

It basically does the same thing for "financial institutions" - eveything from your bank to your insurance company. At some stretch, Safeway could even count.

Here's a bit of background to start your research with.

I wish this kind of thing was more publically known.

Aside from complaining to the FCC (kudos to sub4hleet for this,) you should write your congressional reps. Here's how to find them:

US House of Representatives

US Senate

Here's some free (as in freedom) sample text for a letter:

Dear Hon. [Senator or Rep Name],

I'm writing in regards to a recent FCC ruling concerning the privacy of your telephone conversations, as well as those of your staff and your constituents. The ruling is profiled in an article in PCWorld Magazine, which is available at this Web site:

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102743,0 0.asp

The key points of the ruling are summarized in the opening paragraphs of the article:

"Phone companies now can share a consumer's private information with certain affiliates without first getting that customer's consent, a new Federal Communications Commission ruling says. Details of who customers call, when they call, and how long they talk may be shared with communications-related corporate affiliates, the ruling says. Customers can choose to keep such information private, but must initiate the request. The carrier does not have to ask permission."

I believe this ruling represents an egregious threat to my privacy, as well as the privacy of all Americans. As such, I urge you in the strongest possible terms to use the powers of your office promptly and vigorously to persuade the FCC to reverse this ruling, or (at a minimum) alter it such that it is an "Opt In" style program (in which consumers must explicitly give permission to the phone company to share this data.)

Thank you for your attention. I sincerely appreciate the efforts of you and your staff on behalf of all [Your State] - Keep up the great work!

Your Sincere Constituent,

[Your name AND address - Include your four-digit zip code extension!]

Note that you'll have to use Web-based forms to contact these folks - They like to make sure you're one of their constituents before they read your mail.

That being said: If every slashdot reader were to write a simple letter to their senators & congressmen about fair use, there'd be no stopping us. So go... right now... and write your letter, I plan to. If you don't, don't bitch about losing your fair use rights when it does happen.

I'll second that. At the VERY least, place a phone call to your US Senators and US Representative. This is a 30-second (literally) process, and is the bare minimum that anyone concerned by this issue should do. It at least gets another tick-mark in the "no" column for DRM issues.

By all means, if you're more motivated, write, fax , email, or even set up a meeting with your rep's local staffer. I did that - it's not bad, and you can usually get a meeting with them within a day or so.

If you need to brush up on talking points, Digital Consumer has a lot of great references, FAQs, etc. Make your points in a calm, logical manner, pointing out that DRM A) won't stop piracy, B) will retard the technological innovation that has pushed our economy in the past 50 years, and C) only serves the interests of a few fat-cat media cartels.

But, please, do something to help stop this. We as a community dropped the ball on the DMCA, and look where it's gotten us. We can't afford to do the same on DRM.

Greetings, Brothers. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Emmanuel Goldstien, and I, like yourselves, am I competent and relinquished programmer. However, my friends, it was not until a year ago until I realised that there was more to life than punching ASCII characters into the text editor of your choice. I had discovered Jesus. Now, let me provide a little background information about myself. I was once a devout Satanist and Communist. . I personally hated Our Lord more than anything on earth. My love for Big Brother used to exceed that of my own mother! In a nutshell, I was a God-hating Homosexualist Socialist Propagandist, valuing nothing but the satisfaction of the State and my own Sinful ways. Then, I was struck by a light. At the time, I didn't know what hit me -- all I knew was that I suddenly had found profound meaning in life. And from that moment on, I decided to devote myself to our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, I encourage you (that is if you want to go to heaven) to, right now, get up out of your chair, rip out your computer, throw it off of a cliff, and proclaim, "I love The Lord!". You will undoubtedly feel like a new person, and you will have no use for the mindless entering of text into godless machines. Thank you for you consideration, and God Bless.

...Senate Warner's Office (R-VA). Senator Warner, and his compadre, Senator George Allen, both sit on the High Tech Committee, of which Senator Allen is the chairman...

Short answer: Um, no.

Long answer: Senate Republicans have a para-legislative policy committee, which recommends "The Republican" positions on issues in the Senate. George Allen chairs a subunit of that organization, the high-tech task force. The Democrats have a comparable organization, but they don't publicize it right now because they hold a majority in the Senate.

In fairness, Allen is labelled the ranking member of the Science, Technology, and Space subcommittee. This, however, is misleading because Allen is only a freshman Senator, and all the other Republicans on that subcommittee are actually more senior than he.

...Senate Warner's Office (R-VA). Senator Warner, and his compadre, Senator George Allen, both sit on the High Tech Committee, of which Senator Allen is the chairman...

Short answer: Um, no.

Long answer: Senate Republicans have a para-legislative policy committee, which recommends "The Republican" positions on issues in the Senate. George Allen chairs a subunit of that organization, the high-tech task force. The Democrats have a comparable organization, but they don't publicize it right now because they hold a majority in the Senate.

In fairness, Allen is labelled the ranking member of the Science, Technology, and Space subcommittee. This, however, is misleading because Allen is only a freshman Senator, and all the other Republicans on that subcommittee are actually more senior than he.

...Senate Warner's Office (R-VA). Senator Warner, and his compadre, Senator George Allen, both sit on the High Tech Committee, of which Senator Allen is the chairman...

Short answer: Um, no.

Long answer: Senate Republicans have a para-legislative policy committee, which recommends "The Republican" positions on issues in the Senate. George Allen chairs a subunit of that organization, the high-tech task force. The Democrats have a comparable organization, but they don't publicize it right now because they hold a majority in the Senate.

In fairness, Allen is labelled the ranking member of the Science, Technology, and Space subcommittee. This, however, is misleading because Allen is only a freshman Senator, and all the other Republicans on that subcommittee are actually more senior than he.

...Senate Warner's Office (R-VA). Senator Warner, and his compadre, Senator George Allen, both sit on the High Tech Committee, of which Senator Allen is the chairman...

Short answer: Um, no.

Long answer: Senate Republicans have a para-legislative policy committee, which recommends "The Republican" positions on issues in the Senate. George Allen chairs a subunit of that organization, the high-tech task force. The Democrats have a comparable organization, but they don't publicize it right now because they hold a majority in the Senate.

In fairness, Allen is labelled the ranking member of the Science, Technology, and Space subcommittee. This, however, is misleading because Allen is only a freshman Senator, and all the other Republicans on that subcommittee are actually more senior than he.

Roger also testified before Congress in 2000 about the devious ways of the music industry and in support of MP3s and net.music.

This has been rewarded too. Roger's CD, Treasures from the Folk Den, was a Grammy Nominee for "Best Traditional Folk Album" this year.

Email is definitely the way to go. Fax is second best; physical mail gets tied up in decontamination procedures.

I'm going to model my email on yours, and I'll go one step further. I'll email my own representative and senators, pointing out that I would like them to support Boucher on this, and that I'll be watching for results.

BTW, the Senate has a nice site for finding contact info on your senators, and the House has an online email form.

• House of Representatives,
• Senate
• Congressional

Statement of US Senator Russ Feingold on Market Concentration in the Radio, Concert, and Promotion Industries

"Thank you Mr. President. I rise today to voice my concerns about the concentration of ownership in the radio and concert industry and its effect on consumers, artists, local businesses, and ticket prices.
...
In 1996, prior to the passage of the Telecommunications Act, there were 5133 owners of radio stations. Today, for the Contemporary Hit Radio/Top 40 Formats, four radio station groups - Chancellor, Clear Channel, Infinity, and Capstar - control access to 63 percent of the format's 41 million listeners nationwide.
...
Many of the same corporations that own multiple radio stations in a given market wield their power through their ownership of a number of businesses related to the music industry. For example, the Clear Channel Corporation owns over 1200 radio companies, more than 700,000 billboards, various promotion companies, and venues across the United States. Also, just three years ago, in 1999, Clear Channel bought SFX productions, the nation's largest promotion company.
...
Ticket prices have gone up by nearly 50 percentage points more than consumer prices since passage of the Telecommunications Act - and that doesn't even include the facility fees, parking charges, box office charges or food and beverage increases.
...
It isn't just about who's talented, and who deserves to be played. It's about a shakedown, and that's just unacceptable, Mr. President, for the industry, for the artist, and for all of us as who listen."

Travis

No, don't write a letter. By the time the charred remains of your "de-anthraxed" letters arrive at your senators' or rep's offices, it will be too late.

Everything going to their offices is fried with xrays, microwaves, uber-secret virus killing death rays, and so on. That takes time and actually chars some of the material that finally gets through.

Check for your senators' electronic contact info here.
Get a fax number if there is no email or web form to use.

Write to your House represenatative here.

There are no sites more deserving of a slashdot effect than those two, especially at a time like this.

P.S. While you're at it, write intelligently against things like CBDTPA, outrageous "copyright protection" schemes, etc. Learn more about the issues at EFF.

This ruling can still be appealed in the US Court of Appeals (DC Circuit). I expect an appeal, simply because the cost of royalties for webcasting is ridiculous, even for commercial, big-corporation radio stations that simulcast. Bill Rose of Arbitron, the Nielsen of the radio industry, spells it out beautifully here. Even for the big boys the royalty rate would be about %25 of their advertising revenue. Hopefully the webcasters can hold on for another appeal.

As far as I'm concerned, Bush has a horrible record as far as treaties go (KYOTO anyone?)

You are wrong, Kyoto was rejected (S. 98, 1997) by the Senate while Clinton was president. On top of that, the vote was 95-0. So to say that Bush alone is pushing for the rejection of Kyoto in the USA is wrong.

This is also an excellent time for the US-based portion of our community to follow up with our congressional representatives on this issue. Remember, both the House and the Senate place very little stock in email. If you want to get their attention, use either snail-mail or fax, as detailed above. Snail-mail only costs about $1, fax is even cheaper.

1. Go here and get your ZIP+4 code.
2. Go here and identify your Congressperson.
3. When you click on the "Contact My Representative" button, you will be taken to a form. Ignore it. Instead, click on the link for your Representative and go to their homepage. Hopefully, they will have contact information someplace where you can find it. Copy it into your favorite word-processor.
4. Go here and identify your Senators. Again, we hope that they make it easy to find their contact information.
5. If you are thinking ahead, save three "empty" letters, addressed to each of the above. This will save time the next time you need to write.
6. Use your word processor to write an essay explaining your position. Be verbose. Copy this into each of the three letters you prepared above.
7. If you found any fax numbers (and your computer can print-to-fax!) send copies of your letter that way. Otherwise, print it out and send it by regular mail.

1. What problem would new OMB policies solve?
2. How well would they solve the problem?
3. What new problems would they add?
4. What are the economic and social costs?
5. Given the above, is it worth the cost?

Let's not give Verisign a hard time - they're just trying to make a buck by filling a need that is currently out there. If you really have a problem with this, you should focus on the politics that allow wire tapping in the first place and then consider taking an active role in government by contacting your Senator or Representative.

Strange, but she doesn't look very dead to me.

Even if you can't get past the fact that we knew we were really voting for her, here's a thought: that the residents of Missouri preferred a dead Mel Carnahan to a living John Ashcroft says more about Ashcroft than it does about us.

-r

You're using https, I hope.

Why?

So you're sure that the program your client receives is the same as the program your server sends, not a trojaned version which turns off encryption, for example.

...and how does that trojaned version get onto the server? If salfter.dyndns.org is 0wn3d, I have bigger problems to deal with than a corrupt SSH client. I suppose someone could clone my website, hack dyndns.org to get the DNS entry for salfter.dyndns.org to point to the cloned site, and put a trojaned PuTTY on the cloned site that would know the IP address of the real salfter.dyndns.org...but who the hell's going to go to that kind of bother? Mine is just a personal website of maybe average quality (depending on whose opinion of it you seek). There are plenty of other targets that would be much more attractive for someone to take over.

(Now that I've thought about it a bit, though, I suppose an end-run around such an attack would be to use the IP address instead of the name. It's easy enough to remember. Someone who's determined could crack these guys and reassign my IP address to another system...but then that basically knocks my machine off the net (so no harm will come to it), and (again) who would care enough to want to bother doing that?)

FWIW, the PuTTY download page isn't running on a secure server. It supplies various checksums for the files which you can use for verification, but (as Simon Tatham points out) the programs that do that verification aren't themselves verifiable. There is a point beyond which an eye for security turns into paranoia...nothing is ever 100% secure. At some point, you need to weigh the odds of something bad happening against the measures needed to protect against that something.

One final note: Keeping a copy of PuTTY on a secure site would entail getting a certificate from someone like Verisign, and they don't exactly have the best reputation in the world.

We have sensible Internet legislation, as opposed to the U.S. -- after all it's the U.S. who started with the DMCA and the like.

Not completely true. WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organization) first came up with a DMCA like treaty which countries (like the US) ratified, and then wrote legislation (in the US, the DMCA) to enforce.

The DMCA has an international origin.

Disconnect yourself.

Senator Hollings is going to do that for us.

After CBDTPA passes there will be no Internet in the US, just a TCP/IP based conduit for pay-per-view content from the media conglomerates to the consumers.

Often the recording software shuts down at points where I paused recording because it somehow thinks Macrovision is active. It's really annoying.

Hi, would you do me a favor and type that up, with a little more detail, and submit it here? It would probably be one of the most pertinent comments to date.

Thanks!

My freedom, blah, blah, blah... out of touch legislators blah blah blah. Wanna even a chance to be heard?

1. Fill out this form. Really. Don't just read the comments, and don't just post here. Take a minute and write a thoughtful, well argued comment. Senators don't give a damn what people on Slashdot are saying, but they'll give a damn if it's on their own fancy website.

2. Vote with your vote. Get the hell out there and support candidates that see through all of this crap. As a community, we rant and rave that the whole system is munged then turn around and skip the vote en masse. Ever wonder why no one wants to mess with Social Security? Talk to this very consistent voting group. Senators listen to votes, not money. They only listen to money because it helps them buy more votes. Don't vote? Don't complain.

3. Vote with your dollar. If you rant, then continue to support these businesses, you have no one to blame but yourself. Just as politicians only respond to votes, most businesses only respond to money.

It's got to be more than talk, guys. If we don't start backing any of this up, we'll just be the cranky tech curmudgeons who desperately hang on to the antiquated notion of "freedom."

Senator's Listed by State

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I'd hate to think such innovations are right around the corner, only to find they haven't been approved.

Disney isn't worried about regulations on their parks' coasters--they already own a senator

No, at least two.

Disney isn't worried about regulations on their parks' coasters--they already own a senator.

This one could change everything. Please, everyone, write (not email) your senator! It's easy to find out who your senator is if you don't know already. This one is too big to be hacked around. The political process is our only hope.

Contact info for the committee is here.

(Shoulda put this in my rant. Sorry.)

Get the attention of all of the task force members.

http://rpc.senate.gov/httf/fastfacts.htm

In reading Hatch's statement, I don't see any mention of the DCMA. All it looks like to me is a request for more thought about legislation that would be fair for everyone.

I agree, this probably won't pass...

a long-awaited privacy bill Wednesday that would allow U.S. businesses to share information about customers

Would this qualify as an oxymoron? Exactly how does releasing my private information qualify as privacy? Have these people ever opened a dictionary? Mr. & Mrs. Public would be up in arms if then knew they leaders were voting to allow their credit card companies access to their medical records. If you are sick isn't there a good chance you may miss a payment? Further, if you have a genetic pre-disposition to a disease, regardless of whether you have it, your employer should know, shouldn't they?

A group of business leaders from high-tech firms said the bill struck the right balance between consumers and businesses

A "group of business leaders". Would this be the same group being paid to collate and distribute this data? Or perhaps, the people that want the data? In either case, at least they are honest enough to admit the public is either in the dark or against it. [Okay, that is my spin... ]

I'll predict a much greater level of Internet usage with these privacy policies in place," Boucher said.
Amazing is that as a republican, who should be for more local government and smaller federal government, we have instead the rider that states this will override more restrictive local laws. Even more amusing (frightening?) is his biography which lists him as "a leading architect of federal policy for the Internet." I am really pressed to put some type of sarcasm here, but nothing I could say would be more foolish than his statement.

I know I make this pitch every time one of these things get started, but contact your representatives.
House of Representatives
Senators

And please remember: Be concise, polite, and on paper (fax may even be better as it is not double processed through the mail). In addition, CC the letter to your local newspaper's letter to the editor and you may as well try their email address. (But remember the study done last year, most representatives do not read emails)

Media companies are very very large, and, as a result, have an enormous financial intrest in Washington.

They aren't nearly as large as the hardware manufacturers and the telecom and ISP industries (which stand to lose BIG TIME if the Internet and PCs are neutered). The ITAA is on our side on this issue - and they represent FAR more money than the RIAA and MPAA combined.

are there any elected officials who are not members of either the Democratic or Republican parties?

Duh. Of course there are.
One solitary House member. One Solitary Senate member.

Yep. To the author of that .sig,

I shamelessly borrowed that quote in my comments to the Judiciary Committee.

If you wish, I will compensate you for it, somehow...

Upon calling Paul Wellstone's local office, I told the person working the phone how i was opposed to any legislation mandating draconian DRM solutions and made several valid points. I made a point to inform that I was planning on voting in my first election in 2002 and that my opinions on these issues helped form many of my peer's opinions. Tell some high school kids that this will make burning CDs or making copies of free over-the-air TV programs and they'll get interested real fast.

They said they would have the Senator write me back with a response as soon as possible, but being a Senator, he was a very busy man. Ok, I thought, I'm a reasonable man, what's a few weeks. I don't mind waiting a month or two? I took the form letters from The EFF and tailored them to my needs. I sent compies of this e-mail to recently-elected Senator Dayton (D-MN), and my Congressman, Representative Martin Sabo (D-MN).

Well my e-mail and phone campaign was way back in September and just now have I received a response from one of my elected officials. What follows is an e-mail I just received on April 29th from Senator Wellstone, seven months after my inquiries:

Dear Mr. ********:

Thank you for contacting me regarding S.2048, the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, also known as the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act.

This bill was introduced in the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and may be referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

While I am not a member of either of those committees, I appreciate having the benefit of your views. I also want to assure you that I will keep your views on digital creative works in mind should legislation on this issue reach the Senate floor.

Legislation should strive to protect the rights of creators and ensure that consumers enjoy a vast selection of new and different products. This requires a careful balance among the rights and interests of consumers, creators and innovators.

Again, thank you for contacting me. I hope that you will continue to let me know about matters of interest to you.

Sincerely,
Paul David Wellstone
United States Senator

I liked the part where I he didn't really answer my question... It seems you are correct in thinking Capitol Hill is hell bent on passing legislation. I don't think ANY legislation is a good thing, but I feel that they [capitol hill] see us [letter-writing geeks] as meddlers who refuse to offer a solution. Who says there needs to be a solution? Has anyone had any other luck with their representatives?

Upon calling Paul Wellstone's local office, I told the person working the phone how i was opposed to any legislation mandating draconian DRM solutions and made several valid points. I made a point to inform that I was planning on voting in my first election in 2002 and that my opinions on these issues helped form many of my peer's opinions. Tell some high school kids that this will make burning CDs or making copies of free over-the-air TV programs and they'll get interested real fast.

They said they would have the Senator write me back with a response as soon as possible, but being a Senator, he was a very busy man. Ok, I thought, I'm a reasonable man, what's a few weeks. I don't mind waiting a month or two? I took the form letters from The EFF and tailored them to my needs. I sent compies of this e-mail to recently-elected Senator Dayton (D-MN), and my Congressman, Representative Martin Sabo (D-MN).

Well my e-mail and phone campaign was way back in September and just now have I received a response from one of my elected officials. What follows is an e-mail I just received on April 29th from Senator Wellstone, seven months after my inquiries:

Dear Mr. ********:

Thank you for contacting me regarding S.2048, the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, also known as the Security Systems Standards and Certification Act.

This bill was introduced in the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and may be referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

While I am not a member of either of those committees, I appreciate having the benefit of your views. I also want to assure you that I will keep your views on digital creative works in mind should legislation on this issue reach the Senate floor.

Legislation should strive to protect the rights of creators and ensure that consumers enjoy a vast selection of new and different products. This requires a careful balance among the rights and interests of consumers, creators and innovators.

Again, thank you for contacting me. I hope that you will continue to let me know about matters of interest to you.

Sincerely,
Paul David Wellstone
United States Senator

I liked the part where I he didn't really answer my question... It seems you are correct in thinking Capitol Hill is hell bent on passing legislation. I don't think ANY legislation is a good thing, but I feel that they [capitol hill] see us [letter-writing geeks] as meddlers who refuse to offer a solution. Who says there needs to be a solution? Has anyone had any other luck with their representatives?

I don't know. I think Fritz Hollings should be linked to his true dark master, rather than a merely obscene site. Perhaps we could even link Disney to Fritz Hollings to complete the loop. Why not truly make him the senator from Disney?

I don't know. I think Fritz Hollings should be linked to his true dark master, rather than a merely obscene site. Perhaps we could even link Disney to Fritz Hollings to complete the loop. Why not truly make him the senator from Disney?

The CDBTA(sp?) was his second chance. His first was the Communications Decency Act (see here), a bill so restrictive that it was struck down by the supreme court.
Trust me, this guy is never going to repent and see the error of his ways or other some romantic BS. He needs to leave, now.

Apart from your representatives, you can also email the main guy and then run down the list of members of the senate and house committees.

president@whitehouse.gov
vice.president@whitehouse.gov

Senate Commerce Committee

Chair:
Fritz Hollings
Ranking Republican:
John McCain

Senate Governmental Affairs Committee:

Chair:
John Liebermann

Ranking Republican:
Fred Thompsom

Apart from your representatives, you can also email the main guy and then run down the list of members of the senate and house committees.

president@whitehouse.gov
vice.president@whitehouse.gov

Senate Commerce Committee

Chair:
Fritz Hollings
Ranking Republican:
John McCain

Senate Governmental Affairs Committee:

Chair:
John Liebermann

Ranking Republican:
Fred Thompsom

Apart from your representatives, you can also email the main guy and then run down the list of members of the senate and house committees.

president@whitehouse.gov
vice.president@whitehouse.gov

Senate Commerce Committee

Chair:
Fritz Hollings
Ranking Republican:
John McCain

Senate Governmental Affairs Committee:

Chair:
John Liebermann

Ranking Republican:
Fred Thompsom

Apart from your representatives, you can also email the main guy and then run down the list of members of the senate and house committees.

president@whitehouse.gov
vice.president@whitehouse.gov

Senate Commerce Committee

Chair:
Fritz Hollings
Ranking Republican:
John McCain

Senate Governmental Affairs Committee:

Chair:
John Liebermann

Ranking Republican:
Fred Thompsom