On Oct.1, the <http://ga6.org/ct/N7LBtB91Pu8m/>Congressional 
Management Foundation (CMF), a nonpartisan nonprofit organization 
working to improve the effectiveness of Congress, held a forum on 
constituent communications with Congress. The goal of the conference 
was to "identify ways to make it easier for citizens to express their 
views to Congress in an effective way and for congressional offices 
to manage and get value from the communications they receive." The 
massive amount of e-mail Congress receives from constituents was the 
main topic of discussion. Both nonprofit advocacy groups and 
congressional staffers agreed that the current approach to e-mail 
communications works for neither side, but they were unable to find 
common ground on solutions. CMF will release a draft report in early 
2008 on the conference and its research on the topic, with the goal 
of fostering a new model of constituent communications with Congress.


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