phone call timing

[redbird]

This is a brief reminder that if you only want to talk to your representatives' voicemail, call outside local business hours. (Wherever you live, a congressmember's DC office is on East Coast time). After leaving a lot of messages in the last couple of months, I'd concluded that all my calls would go to voicemail, whether I called during the day or at 1 p.m.

Then one of Rep. Pressley's staffers answered the phone on Tuesday, which threw me off-script for a moment. As far as I know, they're counting calls, and your senator might care where in the state you're calling from, but a call at 7 a.m. or midnight counts as much as one during the day.

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[fabrisse]

Thank you. I called my Georgia Senators today to ask them to allow the District of Columbia to spend its own tax money (not Federal funds) on such frivolities as Public Schools, Public Transportation, and Police and Public Safety. Senator Alsobrook has proposed an amendment to the continuing resolution which would allow the District to continue funding -- from its own taxes -- the essentials of life for so many residents.

If they vote to shut down the government, that works, too, as it kicks the can farther down the road for a decision on DC funding.