Congressional Phones Jammed After Obama Appeal to Contact Lawmakers

President Obama on Monday night urged Americans to tell their members of Congress what they think about the current debt negotiations -- and Americans responded.

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Story Created: Jul 26, 2011 at 11:54 AM AKDT

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Meanwhile, multiple congressional websites crashed or slowed down last night after they were inundated with visitors. According to Committee on House Administration spokesperson Sallie Wood, the sites that were impacted are hosted by outside vendors. (Not all sites are hosted by outside vendors -- it's a matter of the member's or committee's preference -- and those sites hosted by House servers were not affected.) The House worked quickly with the impacted members to get their sites back up, and most were repaired last night, Wood said.

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The Voice of Reason said on Wednesday, Jul 27 at 5:08 AM

You morons remember that when gasoline goes to $5 a gallon. There won't be another republican elected to either house if they continue this idiocy, much less the White House.

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mikey372002 said on Tuesday, Jul 26 at 3:16 PM

nothing is balanced when you waste and spend more then you bring in, all smoke blown up voters butts by the president, pointing finger, just bend that black finger in a u-turn and you found the right person who got this mess to where its at, and now you black finger pointer just want to keep on spending.

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Daniel Harrington said on Tuesday, Jul 26 at 1:52 PM

Left winged drivel. The congress is doing what we want and need. It's the senate and the prsesident that haven't grasped the severity of the situation their childlike spending habits have put us into. Keep up the good work House of Reps!!

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Scott said on Tuesday, Jul 26 at 12:19 PM

Good of you to give AUC free publicity then. Here I didn't think 3500 faxes was enough to make the news. So who got the most calls? Democrats or Republicans?

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