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Remember, though, that these programs exist to put money back into Congressional districts more than anything else.

Responding to frustrated Congressional staff by reducing the information below between Congress and constituents would be patrician and elitist.

The Congressional Budget Office expects the Highway Trust Fund to have an annual shortfall of $15 billion.

Moreover, no congressional _staffer_ is ever going to lose their job taking these messages and throwing them in the trash.

Rather than wasting Kevin's time I suggest our Congresscritters just look up his testimony transcript in the Congressional Record.

Clearly you talked to zero congressional staffers in the creation of this software.

I would be more inclined to believe those congressional reports than the anecdotal evidence you have.

Responding to frustrated Congressional staff by limiting the intermediaries to a narrow range of mostly partisan for-profit vendors would represent an interesting and dangerous form of capture.

> Congressional staff already have plenty of tools for separating those form letters from real, constituent-written letters.

The insider trading laws only punish the little people, the big fish are all doing insider trading anyway (see US Congressional returns on their stock market investments).

I'd encourage you to hop on a plane, and go visit some congressional staffers and ask them how they'd like to receive your messages.

Edit: These numbers are from 2010 congressional elections.

Those are established by congress (and the DEA) and states have their right to have legislation that negates or otherwise "violates" congressional action.

Nice summary, but I think the call to action is needed: "It's clear that American consumers want some sort of messiah to save them from the structure of our wireless industry...write to your Congressional representative - that's the only way things will change any time soon.

So let's fix that by putting an entity in charge of it that has a vanishing fraction of the computational power, tiny fractions of a percent of the information, moves at the speed of Congressional deliberation, and has its own independent incentives that do not necessarily align with any participant in the market." The F1 racers are moving too fast, let's send that sloth out to catch them and make them slow down.

> GK Butterfield, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), will meet with executives at Apple and Google in Silicon Valley on Monday and Tuesday to tell them to “implement a diversity plan that will place more African Americans in the tech pipeline” Aren't Apple and Google on the wrong end of the pipeline for this?

Congressional staffers definitely are the customer to Intranet Quorum and any attempts to compete with it.

Congressional staff already have plenty of tools for separating those form letters from real, constituent-written letters.