Your members of Congress (MoC) are supposed to be your voice in Washington -- shouldn't they talk to you first? IPac thinks so, and that's why we have released a simple walkthrough for setting up a meeting with your Representative and Senators. It's surpringly easy, and you might even be the first citizen to ask about their stance on issues like the DMCA, broadcast flag, or file sharing.

In the great chain of communicating with Congress, the level of impact moves up as you go from:

1. Non-constituent mail, which is aggressively ignored.


2. Cookie cutter emails generated by robotic PR firms.


3. Postal letters that inevitably arrive months too late because of the lag in D.C. mail. Remember anthrax? So does the USPS inside the beltway, and paper moves slow.


4. Personalized emails and faxes, which are usually tallied and sometimes read.


5. Phone calls to the staffer who works on the issue that you're calling about.


6. Personal visits that are requested by constituents.

Each of these tactics gains the user an automatic +50 hit points if it is accompanied by a financial donation. So get on it.