Announcing: Petitions!
We’ve added a new feature that we hope will give you a better way to organize around the issues you care about: Petitions!
Bills come and bills go. Petitions are a way for you to draw people together around issues that matter to you, and to work with new friends from across the country!
When you go to our “Create a Petition” page, you decide what the issue is. Give your petition a catchy name. Give people a short summary of what it’s about—and much more detail if you want.
Then you can associate all the relevant bills in Congress with your petition. When you do, you’ll bring people together to discuss the issues and to collaborate with you.
Every petition has full commenting so people can socialize, share news, and plan strategy.
Take a look at the petitions homepage. You can see the petitions with the most activity, the newest petitions, and the petitions with the most people signed on. Look around. See who is doing what.
If you are dedicated to a cause and have the knowledge to back it up, start a petition of your own!
As a petition creator, you can add new bills and change whether petition supporters should support, oppose, or “keep an eye on” the relevant bills in Congress. You can edit the wiki article you create about the petition. You can even delegate your administrative authority to people you know and trust.
There’s one thing our petition feature doesn’t do: It doesn’t send standardized messages to Congress. Our experience is that Congress ignores mass communications—signing onto a petition is easy, and they know it.
So it’s up to you and your fellow petitioners to come up with tailored strategies and personalized communications you can take to Congress.
Show that you’re engaged. Show that you’ll follow up. This is how you’ll have influence in Washington, D.C. You can organize to create that influence on our petitions page.
We hope this feature will improve your experience with our site, and help you work with others to get a little more control over your government in Washington, D.C.
If you don’t already have an account, create an account and log in now to sign a petition or start a petition of your own!
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Administrative: A New Congress Means Out With the Old – The WashingtonWatch.com Blog
[...] If you want to stay in communication about the issues, we recommend that you create a petition. Petitions can link to the bills that relate to them, so you can bring people from many bills, old and new, together. Find out everything you need to know about petitions at this link. [...]
Administrative: A New Congress Means Out With the Old | US Senators
[...] If you want to stay in communication about the issues, we recommend that you create a petition. Petitions can link to the bills that relate to them, so you can bring people from many bills, old and new, together. Find out everything you need to know about petitions at this link. [...]