Activist Central Service Allows Easy Access to Congress - July 8, 2002 Vol. 3 No. 14

July 8, 2002 Vol. 3 No. 14:

Published: 07/08/2002

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Activist Central Service Allows Easy Access to Congress

As part of our newly re-designed website, OMB Watch would like to invite nonprofits to use our Activist Central system. Over the next few issues of the Watcher, we will be highlighting different features of the system.

The most basic use of the system allows people to find and write to their elected representatives in the federal government. Either from the system's home page or after clicking on the Federal Officials link, the user enters his or her zip code (or zip + 4 code, if known) and is then taken to a page showing the current Senators and Representative for that area. From this page, the user can send correspondence to any of his or her Members of Congress, or get more info on them, including addresses, phone numbers and key staff information.

State officials can be reached in a similar manner by clicking on the State Elected Officials link on the homepage. A user enters his or her zip code or can choose by state to access information on his or her governor and state legislators, as well as to send correspondence to them.

Look for information on more features of our Activist Central system in future issues of the Watcher.