Find the email address of your congressman and send a note. Doesn't even cost postage!
I may end up printing my canned email and snail-mailing it to my reps, too. I have heard rumors that email is still not a respected medium for communicating these types of objections.
I've tried both. My reps don't even read my postage paid mail either; however, occasionally I get a canned response from them in the mail.
Not to take this offtopic, but it all depends on who you are contacting, as well. I have a bit of a story to tell that is related to this.
In 1995, I took a trip to Australia, and was amazed about the lack of crime I saw when I was there (Melbourne, to be exact). In the 3 months I was there, I saw only 3 major crimes commited in a town of nearly 2.5 million people (2 muggings and a burglary which ended up with the burglar getting the bejeezus kicked out of him by the person being burglarized (85 y.o. guy) ). Not bad for 90 days, and seeing people of different races and cultures getting along was pretty eye-opening for me.
I make it back home (Omaha, Nebraska), and hear of 3 shootings in one night (2 of them gang related), and a guy who was kidnapped and carjacked at the same time, killed, car took on a joyride, dead body put in the trunk of the car, and the car set on fire. All on the night I get back home. I wanted to get back on the plane back to Oz right then and there.
Instead of doing that, I started writing email and snail mail to my elected officials at the time (remember, this is 1995; email at the time was for geeks). Canned response from the President and VP. Canned response from the Representatives at the time. No response from one of my Senators (the guy was an absolute jerk anyway), but did get a response, in writing, no doubt, from my other Senator, and was a very thought out response. This other Senator used to be governor of Nebraska as well. I still ahve that letter, and am never getting rid of it.
Anyway, If your elected officials give you nothing but canned or no responses at all, go over them. Find out which committee is heading or discussing it, and mail the people on that committee. If they won't tell you who, use the FOIA. Then constantly mail or email them about it, and tell them what you think. Enough of that should either get them to really listen to you, or classify you as a spammer. Either way, they've received your message. If they don't do anything about it, make sure they don't have a job in the next 2 - 4 years.
That's how you roll with this.
BL.