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To: Jan W who wrote (319789)	8/15/2009 1:01:29 PM
From: Whitebeard	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793957

What's happening? Why no meetings from either party with constituents? Can understand the Demos ducking, but why the Republican? If representative politics fail in NH, they're really gone in the rest of the country. It's so obviously contemptuous. "I don't need you to get elected; all I need is the money of the special interest groups to buy commercial time on TV." But they're losing their audience at warp speed. Whoops. I got no response from my Demo representative. it's like they're crapping all over their voters.

To: Jan W who wrote (319789)	8/15/2009 1:11:44 PM
From: Geoff Altman	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793957

I would have attended a real NH town hall meeting if one of our esteemed, elected representatives had actually had one. Cripes, no wonder, they're all democrats. Meldrim Thomson is rolling in his grave... Someone should sue the state and get them to rescind the state motto because of lack of interest....

To: Jan W who wrote (319789)	8/15/2009 2:39:09 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793957

Good Website to see how your Senator and Reps are voting and what they are doing opencongress.org opencongress.org From the LeftCoast of WA Norm Dicks -Rep - Democrat - No Town Hall Meetings opencongress.org Patty Murray -Sen - Democrat - No known Town Hall Meetings opencongress.org Maria Cantwell - Sen- Democrat - No known Town Hall Meetings opencongress.org Redistributing Knowledge: Murray/Cantwell Secret Town Hall Canceled I wanted to send you an urgent invitation to an important public meeting with Sen. Patty Murray, Sen. Maria Cantwell, and Rep. Brian Baird this Thursday afternoon, August 13th. They'll be talking to constituents and gathering feedback ... Source: Redistributing Knowledge Dave Reichert - Rep - Republican - No known Town Hall Meetings but there are two HC videos on this website. opencongress.org 88888888888 The Health Care Debate and the Marvel of Permalinks August 11, 2009 - by Avelino Maestas farm3.static.flickr.com Recently, we at OpenCongress have received a lot of requests to see the text of the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act (HR 3200) with page numbers. There’s no denying this is a complex piece of legislation with far-reaching effects on Americans and the economy, and I think there’s a genuine movement by Americans to understand the bill and debate specific points. For example, there’s an e-mail going around that mentions sections of the bill and refers to the page number where the point is located: PG 427 Lines 15-24 Govt mandates program for orders for end of life The Govt has a say in how your life ends As the above makes clear, it’s still a struggle to easily “compare notes” on legislation. You’d have to find a PDF of the bill, download it, read the section, and then send an e-mail back. Adding to the difficulty is what happens when the bill is marked up in committee or amended on the House floor. Now you’re dealing with another PDF entirely, so the page numbers you were referring to earlier don’t line up anymore. Fortunately, we’ve made it pretty easy to debate specific sections of legislation here at OpenCongress. Check out the text of HR 3200, and you’ll notice there are “Comment” and “Permalink” buttons whenever you mouseover a section or clause. Those permalinks let you reference a specific section or clause of the bill. So, say you wanted to blog about the specific section mentioned in the quote above. That’s easy! Here’s a link: A program for orders for life sustaining treatment for a States described in this clause is a program that[…] And what if you want to debate the point? Just register for an OpenCongress account, and you can comment on this and every bill in Congress, section-by-section. We’ll have more on this later, but I encourage you to check out the permalink feature when you’re referring to specific sections of the bill. (P.S. For the record, OpenCongress doesn’t include page numbers on bills because the Library of Congress doesn’t publish bills that way.) Article Tags: Engaged Citizenship HR 3200 America's Affordable Health Choices Act Read the Bill