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1. JumpCr+lW[view] [source] 2023-05-16 16:02:50
>>vforgi+(OP)
The members of this subcommittee are [1]:

Chair Richard Blumenthal (CT), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Chris Coons (DE), Mazie Hirono (HI), Alex Padilla (CA), Jon Ossoff (GA)

Majority Office: 202-224-2823

Ranking Member Josh Hawley (MO), John Kennedy (LA), Marsha Blackburn (TN), Mike Lee (UT), John Cornyn (TX)

Minority Office: 202-224-4224

If you’re in those states, please call their D.C. office and read them the comment you’re leaving here.

[1] https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/subcommittees

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2. alephn+D91[view] [source] 2023-05-16 16:54:53
>>JumpCr+lW
Feel free to call their office but they won't get the message let alone escalate it.

Source: manned phones fielding constituent calls earlier in my career.

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3. JumpCr+Eb1[view] [source] 2023-05-16 17:04:16
>>alephn+D91
> manned phones fielding constituent calls earlier in my career

Local or legislative?

I've never met a Senator's leg team that doesn't compile notes on active issues from constituents upstream. (Granted, it's a handful of teams.)

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4. alephn+GV1[view] [source] 2023-05-16 20:47:28
>>JumpCr+Eb1
Legislative.

In the office I worked at we'd compile notes but unless we were seeing a coordinated through the roof amount of calls nothing would come of it, and realistically this most likely falls under that category.

That said, the Congressperson I worked with had DNC executive ambitions (and looks like they will succeed with those ambitions).

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5. JumpCr+J02[view] [source] 2023-05-16 21:16:28
>>alephn+GV1
> the Congressperson I worked with had DNC executive ambitions

That’s unfortunate. (I’ve also found Representatives’ staff less responsive than Senators’.)

Agree that one off calls aren’t going to move the needle. But if even a handful comment, in my experience, it at least forces a conversation.

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6. alephn+yb2[view] [source] 2023-05-16 22:18:37
>>JumpCr+J02
> I’ve also found Representatives’ staff less responsive than Senators’

It's a symptom of office size. A Senate office will have around 30-50 FT staffers whereas in the House you're capped at 18 FT Staffers.

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