I just tried to call both my US Senators and both lines are busy in their DC office. Is anyone

[PatrickforB]

else experiencing this in trying to make their DAILY calls to our US Senators?

[bronxiteforever]

1. Yes couldn't get through to mine either.

Good sign?

[PatrickforB]

5. No this is NOT a good sign. I think the switchboards are being flooded by GOP operatives to keep them busy.

This is not good, not at all.

[bronxiteforever]

8. I am hoping it was us.

[jrthin]

2. Yes. Line busy for Schumer's NY office.

[Alice B.]

3. I tried all of Fetterman's PA offices + DC and they were all busy

OTOH, I got through to my Rep’s local office (an R) and the woman who answered was surprisingly kind and sympathetic.

[cbabe]

4. One says voice mail is full. The other only allows voice mail. I called a local office instead.

[MiHale]

6. Mail boxes full for my Senators...

Called Republican Representative no problem getting through…answered first ring.

Michigan.

[vapor2]

7. I USUALLY CALL AFTER HOURS AND LEAVE A MESSAGE

Also try calling one of the local offices, not just WA

[Mossfern]

9. Send them an email

They don't have enough interns to answer the calls. Emails will get through.
At the end of the day the numbers of calls/email for issues will be tallies and presented in a report.

[PatrickforB]

10. I did not know this, but:

The (senior) staffer was very clear that any sort of online contact basically gets immediately ignored, and letters pretty much get thrown in the trash (unless you have a particularly strong emotional story — but even then it's not worth the time it took you to craft that letter).

Calls are what all the congresspeople pay attention to. Every single day, the Senior Staff and the Senator get a report of the 3 most-called-about topics for that day at each of their offices (in DC and local offices), and exactly how many people said what about each of those topics. They're also sorted by zip code and area code. She said that Republican callers generally outnumber Democrat callers 4-1, and when it's a particular issue that single-issue-voters pay attention to (like gun control, or planned parenthood funding, etc...), it's often closer to 11-1, and that's recently pushed Republican congressmen on the fence to vote with the Republicans. In the last 8 years, Republicans have called, and Democrats haven't.

[Mossfern]

13. Interesting

Two of my kids interned for Bill Pascrell -I'll get their input.
Is your information about all Congress members, or specfic ones?

I don't want to give out misleading information.

[LeftInTX]

14. They usually mark YES and NOs if you send them via email. I get auto responses from them.

You need to go through their portals. They usually ignore regular email.
I've also received fairly detailed responses about a week or so later. One time I received a long winded reply from Cruz about a month later.

[Mark.b2]

11. I've had decent luck in the pas getting my Congressmen to respond on FB and X...

I havent tried it on cabinet nominees, but it might work.

[LeftInTX]

12. I doubt if this will work with Senators for nominees. It has worked with my congressman.

But it was an oddball issue (Armenian stuff). It probably got his attention, since it's a very Latino district.

The senators are probably getting too many tags.

[Meowmee]

15. I have not done it yet I've not been able to and I wonder if it's going to make any difference.

In the past, when I have I never get a hold of anybody. I just leave a message. Maybe email is a better way.

[electric_blue68]

16. I was able to leave a phone message on Schumer's NYC line DC mailbox full

Actually spoke to a staff person for Sen Gillibrand local nyc