I initially sent my rebuttal about H. CON. RES. 13 to Representative Simpson by replying to his email. The header on the email he sent me was:
from [email protected] reply-to [email protected] to [email protected] date Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:18 AM subject A Message From Congressman Simpson
It looked like they had a mailbox set up for his staff to sort through replies. Gmail has sent me daily updates since then on the status of their attempts to deliver the message. Today I got:
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
ID02CC8Incoming@housemail.
house.gov Technical details of permanent failure:
The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. Learn more at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer= 7720
[housemail.house.gov (1): Connection refused]
Don’t worry, after the first time it was refused, I used the contact form to send my rebuttal, unfortunately that form does not allow for any formatting so I included a link to the more readable version on the blog, which no one from the house.gov domain has checked out. This makes me question the Congressman’s statement of:
Once again, thank you for taking the time to contact me about this issue. As your representative in Congress, it is important to me to know your thoughts and opinions about issues affecting our nation today.
They sure don’t make it easy to let them know our thoughts and opinions. I guess this is democracy at work.