> I am looking for opinions...
>
> There are a lot of issues one might like to comment on.
>
> Then in the pension related issues, there are many different
> bills on the same topics. Not only is tracking and keeping
> up a chalenge, I am afraid of being treated like static if I
> respond on each one.
>
> I have sent enough letters and faxes to all my federal
> legislators that I have a WORD template for each one. Now I
> am wondering if the staff will treat a lot of traffic from
> one person as "junk mail". In the computer age, tracking has
> to be easy.

IBM's lobbyists are visiting them, in person, once each day. You'll
have to send a lot of letters to have any chance of drowning them out.
If you're tired of writing Congress, write a letter to the editor of
your local paper, and then write to your friends and neighbors and ask
them to write as well.

They don't need to hear detailed comments on each version of the pension
reform bill.

What they need to hear is a loud and clear refrain that cash balance
plans are nothing more than corporate theft and should not be legal,
especially not retroactively.

Janet