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After my last post a few minutes ago, I was just thinking that many people might not ever contact their representatives and senators because they don’t know where to start or how hard it will be. Here are some tips for taking action:

1) The NRDC has a great feature on their website that lets you search for your elected officials, and then easily send a message to them in a uniform manor. Visit http://www.nrdconline.org/nrdc/leg-lookup/search.tcl. This page finds both your federal and state officials. Even though it’s relatively easy to find your federal officials via the federal government’s web sites (see tips #2 and #3), finding state officials is a little harder. In general you can go to <state>.gov (substituting <state> for the actual state name, of course), but each state’s web page is completely different.

2) For finding Senators, you can also just go to http://www.senate.gov and use the drop down selection box in the upper right-hand corner of the page to find your senators by state name, and a link to a web form for communicating with them. This may be easier to remember if you forget to bookmark the NRDC page.

3) For the House of Representatives, you can go to http://www.house.gov and use the form on the upper left-hand corner of the page to search for your representative by zip code. If you don’t know the extra 4 digits of your zip code, go to http://www.usps.com and click on the “Find a ZIP Code” link on the far left of the top navigation bar to search using your home address.

I hope this helps make it easier for any Americans reading my blog to communicate with our government. Voicing your opinion is really only a few clicks and an email away. Use it!

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