How to Petition the Federal Government

How to Petition the Federal Government

1)    Go to USA.gov

2)   Click on government agencies and elected officials.

3)   Contact elected officials.

4)   Under Federal Elected Officials, choose the President.

5)   Fill out his online form and write your comment. Keep your comment very brief so that, if necessary, you can send the comment via Twitter. (If you do not have a Twitter account, just go to Twitter.com and sign up—it is free and very easy!) Keep your comments very short, and do not include more than one issue for each message. Always remain polite and nonconfrontational. If you are writing about a bill under consideration, try always to refer to the bill by name and number. If you do not know the number of the bill under question, go to Agencies on USA.gov and choose Library of Congress (LOC). Enter the bill name in the search field, and you will receive the bill number and information about the bill.

6)   Highlight your message to the President and copy it with the control/C command to copy.

7)   Go to U.S. senators on the USA.gov site and go to “choose a senator.” Scroll to your 2 senators and click on “contact.” Then, fill out each senators’ online form. When you get to the comment field, use Control/V to paste your comment. You may have to modify your comment to fit the Senate message.

8)   After you have written to your 2 senators, choose “leadership” and send the same message to each leader in both parties. Do not avoid sending messages to senators with whom you disagree on the issue you are discussing. After all, those are the votes you want to change, anyway. (By using this technique, you can contact any other senator you wish to contact.)

9)   After you have contacted the Senate, go beck to USA.gov and select “U.S. representatives.” You will arrive at “Directory of Representatives:” Click on “By last name,” and enter the last name on the table below. When you find your representative, fill out his/her online contact form and do exactly the same thing you did for the senators. The House of Representatives web site will not allow you to contact leadership or any other representative. They seem to have made that difficult and not available for people other than the representative’s own constituency.

 

Nancy and I are presently petitioning government to support a bill that will be introduced in the House on 6 January by Congressman Mo Brooks of Alabama to override the Supreme Court on the election issue. He will ask the legislative branch of the federal government to force objective evaluation of the presidential votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania for three reasons:

1.   Voters cannot be accurately identified in those states.

2.  Voters must be legal residents or green card holders in order to vote.

3.  Legal votes must be submitted within the legal time periods to be counted.

This procedure of legislative override of Supreme Court decisions is legal and has been used several times in recent years.

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