And a reality check from someone who’s worked on the Hill. I think people really underestimate how helpful their elected representatives can be in navigating the governmenthttps://twitter.com/JonMLCoen/status/1243697227220094984 …
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A small case in point: several months ago when I was having trouble with Virginia’s health insurance laws, I got helpful responses from both my state rep’s office and the rep who wrote the bill that made us qualify for small biz insurance. Don’t be afraid to call them!
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I would be interested to see a poll done of people who’ve contacted their Congressperson/other legislators. I have a feeling most have only done so to complain/advocate for a certain issue, not a lot of need for reply there. Probably only a small % use them to navigate gov
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I have family members who worked in constituent services. The most common requests were immigration issues and “I’m getting stalled on X process by Y bureaucrat; can you do anything?”
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Which generally results in constituent services staff calling that bureaucrat and saying “This is Constituent Services for Congressman X. We have a request re: Y. Do you have an update on Y that we can give to X?”
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Round two is a letter recounting the call and, in measured tones, saying that the elected official would appreciate their cooperation in answering questions. Round three: career civil servants generally optimize to avoid reaching round three.
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