What makes an effective communication to Congress?
• If writing a letter:Put your name and address at the end of your letter AND on the envelope, so your members of Congress know that you are one of the people they represent. If calling:Introduce yourself and say where you live. • Ask for specific action:Using the following sentence or your own words: “Please cosponsor S. 1524 – the Foreign Assistance Revitalization and Accountability Act.” • Give reasons why. Examples are: • The Foreign Assistance Revitalization and Accountability Act is a good first step in making our nation’s foreign assistance more effective and streamlined. We need you to co-sponsor the bill. • By making our foreign assistance more efficient and effective, U.S. assistance will have a greater impact on poor and hungry people around the world—critical in these tough economic times. • The act makes it U.S. policy to promote global development, good governance, and the reduction of poverty and hunger and it rebuilds the policy, planning, and evaluation capacity of the
