Contacting Representatives

Comments urging Hacker News users to contact their congressional representatives, senators, and other elected officials by phone, email, or letter to influence legislation on various issues.

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Sample Comments

Cyberdog • Sep 4, 2022 • View on HN

Contact your congresscreatures.

amazingamazing • Apr 8, 2025 • View on HN

Yup - people should contact their representatives.

click170 • Jan 16, 2015 • View on HN

Contact your rep in congress and tell them that. They dont read hackerness unfortunately.

deegles • Jul 15, 2017 • View on HN

Call your representative and let them know!

jbay808 • Jan 5, 2021 • View on HN

You can write a letter to your representative!

toomuchtodo • Mar 24, 2018 • View on HN

Call your representative and demand legislation.

JumpCrisscross • Feb 22, 2017 • View on HN

I just emailed my U.S. Senators, U.S. Congresswoman, New York State Assemblywoman and Senator as well as New York City Councilman. You can find your representatives here [1]. It's a simple email saying this is an issue you care about. Pretend it's a Hacker News comment...[1] http://act.commoncause.org/site/PageServer?pagename=sunlight...</a

lern_too_spel • Mar 30, 2022 • View on HN

Contact your congressperson and encourage others to do so too. Also contact their opponent in the upcoming election to make it a campaign issue.

rafram • Sep 6, 2025 • View on HN

Yes. Talk to your congresspeople.

tomrod • Mar 5, 2023 • View on HN

It's a completely reasonable question -- reach out to your Congressional representatives to kick off the initiative!