Contact Your Legislators--U.S.

Contact Your Legislators

United States Senators and Representatives

If you are not sure which Legislator represents your district, you can find these district numbers on your voter registration card, or consult these sites:

U.S. House of Representative Write your Representative page. This page has a look-up feature by zip code to identify your representative. (Zip + 4 code needed)
Project Vote-Smart. You can find U.S. and state legislators by zip code here, as well as information on upcoming elections in your districts. (Zip + 4 code needed)

Some tips when e-mailing representatives:

send individual messages; "spamming" makes a bad impression and your message may be ignored
include your home address, to be sure your representative knows you are from their state or district (this is not always apparent from your email address)
The Univ. of North Texas Library offers this page of tips: "How to Write a Letter to Your Legislator"
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a page of information and tips: "Contacting Congress (and Other US Policy Makers)"
and the American Library Association's PDF "Library Advocate's Handbook" includes a section on "Dealing with Legislators"

U.S. Senators

Kay Bailey Hutchison

Washington address: 284 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510-4304
Washington phone: 202/224-5922, 202/224-0776 (FAX), 202/224-5903 (TDD)

Local address: 145 Duncan Drive, Suite 120, San Antonio, Texas 78226-1898
Local phone: 210/340-2885, 210/349-6753 (FAX)

Web form: http://hutchison.senate.gov/e-mail.htm

Web page: http://hutchison.senate.gov/

John Cornyn

Washington address: 517 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510-4305
Washington phone: 202/224-2934, 202/228-2856 (FAX)

Local address: 600 Navarro, Suite 210, San Antonio, Texas 78205-2455
Local phone: 210/224-7485; Fax: 210/224-8569

Web form: http://www.cornyn.senate.gov/contact/index.html

Web page: http://cornyn.senate.gov/

U.S. Representatives (South Texas)

Charlie A. Gonzalez

District 20

Washington address: 327 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515
Washington phone: 202/225-3236, 202/225-1915 (FAX)

Local address: 727 East Durango, B-124 Federal Building, San Antonio, Texas 78206
Local phone: 210/472-6195, 210/472-4009 (FAX)

Web page: http://www.house.gov/gonzalez/

Lamar Smith

District 21

Washington address: 2231 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
Washington phone: 202/225-4236, 202/225-8628 (FAX)

Local address: 1100 N.E. Loop 410, Suite 640, San Antonio, Texas 78209-1530
Local phone: 210/821-5024, 210/821-5947 (FAX)

Email: lamars@mail.house.gov

Web page: http://www.house.gov/lamarsmith/

Ciro Rodriguez

District 23

Washington address: 2458 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
Washington phone: 202/225-4511

Local address:
Local phone:

Web page: http://rodriguez.house.gov/

Henry Cuellar

District 28

Washington address: 1404 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
Washington phone: 202/225-1640, 202/225-1641 (FAX)

Local offices:

1149 E. Commerce Street, Suite 210, San Antonio, TX 78205: 210/271-2851, 210/277-6671 (FAX)
111 E. San Antonio, Suite 205, San Marcos, Texas 78666: 512/392-2364, 512/392-2834 (FAX)
1300 Matamoros, Suite 210, Laredo, TX 78040: 956/725-0639, 956/725-2647 (FAX)

Web page: http://www.house.gov/cuellar/

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Links checked March, 2007