Making Contact

You may want to glance at some tips on contacting your public officials from Project VoteSmart, or at an older but reputable Citizens' Guide to the Net.

Presidential mail

Presidential E-Mail

Go right to the top! This provides links for e-mail addresses for the President, First Lady, Vice President, and others.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/html/couples.html

Congressional Directories

Contents

1. Privately built tools
2. Publicly built tools

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Sound Off

Hosted by U.S. News and World Report, a searchable list of Congressional and Presidential addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses, with information supplied by Project Vote Smart and the National Journal.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/wash/sound.htm

VoteSmart State-by-state list of congressional delegations.

Move down the hierarchy alphabeticaly or by state or by party to individual entries that list name, state, post, party, web page, email address, contact information, biographical data, sources of campaign funding, Congressional committee memberships, positions on issues, and a photograph.
http://www.vote-smart.org/congress/index.html

The Zipper

A search form allows you to enter your zip code and receive in return the name, address, and other contact information for your member of Congress. The inexact match between congressional districts and zip codes, however, means that not all the responses are correct; in such cases The Zipper may give not merely an ambiguous but a wrong answer.
http://www.stardot.com/zipper/

CapWeb

The best one-stop guide to Congress and guide to contacting members of it. Many other sites that provide e-mail lists for Congress, e.g. the Electronic Activist, which adds a pre-made email letter form, in fact obtain their primary information from CapWeb. There are many routes through CapWeb, but whichever one chooses, they all lead to state pages that display the state flag, list the senators and representatives, and supply e-mail addresses and home page URLs.
http://policy.net/capweb/congress.html

Congressional Quarterly Member of Congress evaluator

Offering an excellent interface and solid information, CQ supplies for every member of Congress not only contact information but a profile, biographical information, a political history, voting records, full text of recent floor speeches, Bill introductions filed in this session, and even committee roll call votes.
http://voter96.cqalert.com/cq_job.htm

David Morgan's list

David Morgan's list of email addresses in congressional district order; also includes lists of web homepages by senator's or representative's name. A separate Political list supplies the addresses of political parties, committees, caucuses, the FEC, etc.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1007/
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1007/political.html

UniPress Congressional Web Directory

From the makers of Will.T.Bill, UniPress's rather limited list of congressmen's pages plus sites for various parties and government offices sports a very slick interface. The equivalent Mail Room for e-mail addresses and form-generated email was is closed for repairs as of 31 Jan 96, but may be back up now.
http://main.street.net/government/

Contacting the 104th Congress

Juan Cabanela's comprehensive site includes table and nontable versions. He offers also a miscellaneous list that includes less common addresses, such as those of committees, white house groups, congresional caucuses,etc.
http://ast1.spa.umn.edu/juan/congress.html
http://ast1.spa.umn.edu/juan/congress/misc.html

U.S. News People Power

The "Citizen's Toolbox" or "People Power" section of the U.S. News and World Report web page includes this form in which one enters one's zip code, receives in exchange the name and email address of one's congressional representative, and is then sent to a complex form that allows one to send e-mail directly from the form to the congressman, plus copies, if desired, to either senator, or to the President. This variant on the "Zipper" (described above) seems to have avoided the problem of mismatched zip and congressional districts by offering alternative names whenever an ambivalent zip is entered.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/wash/getzip.htm

1995-96 Congressional Directories

Grace York of the University of Michigan Documents Center offers both the traditional directory and a directory of email addresses.
gopher://gopher.house.gov:70/0F-1%3a509%3aAll%20Members%20-%20Alphabetical
gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu:70/11/socsci/poliscilaw/uslegi/congdir
gopher://una.hh.lib.umich.edu:70/00/socsci/poliscilaw/uslegi/conemail

Congressional Phone and Fax Search

Quick and simple gopher search from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
(gopher://gopher.ucsc.edu:70/7waissrc%3A/.WAIS/Congress-104.src)

LCWEB's Senatorial Web Directory

LCWEB's linked list of individual senator's web sites.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/legislative/senators.html

Congressional Directory (GPO)

Searchable on GPO Access and its mirrors, the Congressional Directory database contains the Congressional Directory, 1995-1996 (Senate Publication 104-14, revised). The Congressional Directory is prepared by the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP). The database is updated irregularly as changes are provided by the JCP.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces002.html

Senate directories

From the Senate web page, include

• Directory of Senators by name
• Directory of Senators by State or use the text version by gopher.
• Directory of Senators with Constituent E-mail addresses. A handy list: includes Senate switchboard number and suggestions for contacting Senators.
• Directory of the Senate Leadership
• List of Senators by 'class' year

http://www.senate.gov/senator/members.html
http://www.senate.gov/senator/state.html
http://www.senate.gov/senator/membmail.html
http://www.senate.gov/leader/leadership.html
http://www.senate.gov/other/class.html

House Member Directory (web)

Includes information about writing to congress. The Member Directory is presented in 3 formats:

• A complete alphabetic listing of all Members, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, showing their Washington, D.C. office postal address and phone number. This document is formated so one can easily save and print the entire listing. (See next item.)
• A series of documents with Members organized alphabetically.
• A series of documents with Members organized by state, then alphabetically by member within state.

The second and third options lead to a page that lists office (D.C.) address and phone number, e-mail address, history of service in Congress, committee and subcommittee membership, party rank on each committee, and legislation sponsored and cosponsored. The list of legislation is dynamically linked to the House Bill_Status WAIS server, so that one may click on any sponsored piece of legislation and retrieve a complete summary and legislative history of the bill.
http://www.house.gov/mbr_dir/membr_dir.html

House Member directories (gopher)

These represent the first of the three optional forms of the Member Directory, available by web or gopher from the House of Representative gopher site and available as either a postal directory that looks like this:

      Wayne Allard         R     CO04     422  CHOB   225-4676
      Robert E. Andrews    D     NJ01     2439 RHOB   225-6501
      Bill Archer          R     TX07     1236 LHOB   225-2571
      Richard K. Armey     R     TX26     301  CHOB   225-7772

or an email directory confined to addresses through the House e-mail system, each entry of which looks like this:

       Hon. Robert Andrews
       1st Congressional District, New Jersey
       Rm. 2439 Rayburn House Office Building
       Washington, DC 20515
       RANDREWS@HR.HOUSE.GOV

gopher://gopher.house.gov:70/1D-1%3A483%3AHouse%20Directories
gopher://gopher.house.gov:70/0F-1%3A207%3AHouse%20Email%20Addresses

House Web Page Directory

The official House directory of members' individual home pages. These may contain whatever the legislator chooses to place in them; Dick Armey's, for example, serves as the "Armey/Shelby Flat Tax page."
http://www.house.gov/MemberWWW.html

House Gopher Page Directory

The official House directory of members' individual home gopher pages, wherever they might be located. These may contatin whatever the legislator chooses to place in them; a typical assortment includes Biography, Constituent Services, Contact information, District Information, Issue Positions, Press Releases, Weekly Comment, Newsletters (this list taken from the page belonging to Rep. Chrysler (R-MI).)
gopher://gopher.house.gov:70/1D-1%3A11069%3AHouse%20Member%20Information

House Leadership Directory

The names of the Members who hold House Leadership positions. Needs to be combined with House Leadership Information and the partly overlapping Organizations Information.
http://www.house.gov/leadership_officers.html
gopher://gopher.house.gov:70/1D-1%3A25308%3AHouse%20Leadership%20Information
http://www.house.gov/Party_organizations.html

House Committee Directory

The name, address and phone number of each full committee and subcommittee. For example:

      COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE                                                   
      (202) 225-2171                                                             
      1301 Longworth                                                             
                                                                           
      COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS                                                
      (202) 225-2771                                                             
      H218 Capitol                                                               

Needs to be combined with other House Committee Information via gopher and world wide web. The information under each committee (and it is not comprehensive) varies, and is the responsibility of each committee to choose and provide.
http://www.house.gov/Committees.txt
gopher://gopher.house.gov:70/1D-1%3A768%3AHouse%20Committee%20Information
http://www.house.gov/CommitteeWWW.html

Library of Congress MARVEL list of Congressional directories

Includes many of those listed here.
gopher://marvel.loc.gov/11/congress/directory