Then follow up with regular phone calls to the legislator’s office. Ellworth wrote. Phone calls, and – as old-fashioned as it might sound – face-to-face contact. As Scherb explains, Congressional offices routinely compile tallies for members of how many cumulative contacts – emails, calls, meetings – they receive, and how many they get on each issue. Scherb notes that surveys of Hill staffers by the Congressional Management Foundation show that in-person meetings – in Washington, unfortunately – are the most effective way to communicate your point, followed by district office meetings back home. Scherb says. And those emails that you get from advocacy groups asking you to send form letters to members of Congress? “We’re hoping the success of the movie will inspire people to into math and science fields,” says Barry. Science fiction authors and others had long been writing about living on the moon, but now that we’d been there, it seemed like a real possibility. Those are the kind of things that people used to write a lot of code for, but you can now do it in a more robust way with the open file format. Microsoft Office 2013 includes extended file format support, user interface updates and support for touch among its new features and is suitable for IA-32 and x64 systems.

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Everything from vital crops to conquering armies succeeded or failed on the whims of the weather. If that sounds tiring, frustrating, and slow, or like it privileges those with the time, energy and resources to reach out, welcome to democracy. During that time, the state also spent $425,000 on air flights for Kottkamp — two-thirds of which were trips to Fort Myers, where he owned a vacation home. Kottkamp insisted to the newspaper that his boss, Gov. Gov. Mickey Steinberg had a falling out with his boss, Gov. That strategy should include reaching out multiple times through multiple modes of communication. Pick some things that you really care about – “a niche or specialty of two or three issues,” as he describes it – and develop a long-term strategy for lobbying your Congress member. Several even have to power to pick which senators sit on various committees or chair them. Many of them have the power to set rules and control the direction of debates, to determine which committees consider legislation and even to determine the order in which bills are considered. Many of them constitutionally preside over their state senates, which allows them to wield influence over legislation and occasionally to cast important tie-breaking votes.

And lieutenant governors occasionally even cast tie-breaking votes on controversial legislation. South Carolina’s lieutenant governor Andre Bauer has used his powers as presiding senate officer to block more than $2 billion in proposed new taxes. In 30 states — Mississippi, Washington, North Carolina, and Texas, among others — the lieutenant governor also doubles as the presiding officer of the state senate. In Minnesota, the state legislature recently considered a proposal to eliminate the $78,000-a-year job, on the grounds that the lieutenant governor doesn’t have enough to do to justify the salary. Still others choose to have some fun on the job. But this doesn’t mean that all of fashion’s commandments have gone out the window — Thou shall not wear stirrup pants unless you’re riding a horse. Posting an impassioned comment on a Congressperson’s Facebook page, for example, turns out to be a complete waste of time. For example, in the late 1970s, Republican Mike Curb — a music producer who penned the commercial jingle “You Meet the Nicest People on a Honda (Go Little Honda)” — was elected second-in-command to liberal democratic Gov. For example, in the early 1990s, former Maryland Lt. Back in 1974, former Delaware Lt. Curb worked the entertainment industry, while former Virginia Lt.