2014 Congressional Elections Advocacy 101 - Making a Difference in Congress | Page 5

Tips for your communications to
Congress:
• Include both your postal and email
addresses in correspondence, especially in emails. Members of Congress often reply by regular mail
or email, and your postal address
helps identify you as a constituent.
• Personalize your message. As one
House correspondence staff person put it, “One hundred form letters have less direct value than a
single thoughtful letter generated
by a constituent.”

Laura Elizabeth Pohl/Bread for the World

• Be informative. Tell your members of Congress why this issue is
important. Draw on your own experience and knowledge to make
the letter your own.
• Be concise. Letters, emails, and other