Discussion: What are you calling/faxing/writing Congress about?

[tassosss]

It's been a little quiet around here as the Minority President's administration has become the new normal and has stopped blowing up in a big way every other day. Or that's my impression anyway.

I'm still using ResistBot to tell my Congress people that I support Obamacare and that healthcare should be a right. But I'm starting to feel a little stale on that topic, so I'm probably going to start talking about my support for the EPA because I like clean air and clean water.

I was wondering what other issues folks are talking to their Congress people about. What's near and dear to your heart?

Comments

[tassosss]

I like this mix. I've been pretty focused on healthcare since it's the topic I've been following most closely. I think I need to make a three or four topic rotating schedule, which may help when I feel stuck.

[kyrielle]

I also glance at the news - it can be sadly very inspiring. Today's letter was about the “Working Families Flexibility Act” (H.R. 1180 / S. 801).

Because it adds NO flexibility they don't already have - for the worker - and lets the company defer overtime payment if the worker agrees (and if they only give overtime to those who agree...).

I mean, without the law, if you work a 50-hour week and a 25-hour week 3 months apart, for those two weeks in *total* you are paid 80 hours of pay (40+15 the first week, 25 the other).

With the law, if you do the same thing using comp time, in *total* you are paid 80 hours of pay...but the extra 15 hours of pay from the 50-hour week doesn't arrive until you take it as comp time in the 25-hour week.

Why are we adding a law to have employees loan their employers money from their wages??? O.o