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If \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982090/unpredictable-race-for-silicon-valley-congressional-seat-after-unprecedented-tie\">the results stand, all three candidates will advance\u003c/a> to the general election in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11981809 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-Low-Simitian-MD-02-1020x680.jpg']The recount has been accompanied by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982501/requests-for-recount-could-upend-silicon-valley-race-for-congress\">political mystery, clashes between the campaigns and their allies\u003c/a> and a whole host of procedural questions. Here’s what we know about how the recount in the 16th Congressional District will work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#lowsimitianrecountrequest\">Who can request an electoral recount?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#lowsimitianrecountcost\">How much will this recount cost and where is the money coming from?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Why is this recount happening?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unlike \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/election-recounts\">roughly two dozen states\u003c/a>, California does not have a law triggering recounts in close races for federal or state offices. Santa Clara has an automatic recount law on the books, but it only applies to local races, not a federal contest like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, recounts are triggered by a request from a voter in the district. Two voters, Dan Stegink and Jonathan Padilla, asked for this recount — but Stegink ultimately withdrew his request, and only Padilla put down the necessary deposit to fund the process (more on that later).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla previously worked for Liccardo and has supported his campaign, leading to criticisms that his pursuit of a new count was motivated by a desire to narrow the field of candidates to advantage Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three campaigns said they have no involvement in the recount requests. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982501/requests-for-recount-could-upend-silicon-valley-race-for-congress\">Read more about the backstory of this recount.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"lowsimitianrecountrequest\">\u003c/a>Under what circumstances is a recount allowed?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Any voter can request a recount — for any office in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For statewide offices (such as attorney general or insurance commissioner) or statewide ballot measures where the margin between candidates is within 1,000 votes or 0.00015%, the governor can order a state-funded, manual recount of every vote cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How long will the recount take? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The recount will only cover votes in the 16th Congressional District, which includes Palo Alto, Mountain View, and parts of San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recount could be completed within five days, according to Michael Borja, associate communications officer at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The very first action item would be to retrieve the ballots from storage and retrieve the complete precincts that are requested,” Borja said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11982501 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240303-Liccardo-HQ-KSM-1_qut-1020x680.jpg']On Monday, Santa Clara County election workers began retrieving the ballots for precincts within the 16th Congressional District. That initial processing will take at least a day, with the counting likely beginning in earnest on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recount process was set to begin parallel in San Mateo County, but as of Monday morning, election officials said no payment had been received.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"lowsimitianrecountcost\">\u003c/a>How much will the recount cost?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials estimate a daily cost of $16,800 for this machine recount, leading to an estimated total cost of $84,200 to count every relevant ballot in the county. In San Mateo, officials pegged the cost of a machine review at $4,550 per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his request, Padilla also requested a review of disqualified ballots, envelopes and other materials and system logs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those will incur additional cost on top of the costs for the [new] tally,” Borja said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who is paying for the recount? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla will have to place a daily deposit to cover the costs of that day’s recount work. If he fails to make the daily payment, Padilla’s recount request will end — although he has suggested that he is, in fact, ready to make the daily payments necessary to carry out a recount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can the recount requesters get their money back? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe. A recount requester must specify which candidate they are requesting the recount on behalf of. If the results change in that candidate’s favor, the county assumes the cost of the recount and refunds the requester. That means local taxpayers \u003cem>could \u003c/em>be on the hook, depending on the recount’s result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla listed Evan Low as the candidate he is requesting a recount on behalf of, although Low’s campaign was not involved and opposed the request. If Low moves ahead of Simitian after a recount, Padilla could get his money back, according to election officials in both counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for Low dispute that reading of the state’s law on recount refunds, however. In a Friday letter to the county registrars, they argued that Low is already in the general election as a result of the tied vote. Therefore, Padilla should not be refunded if Low moves ahead of Simitian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do the requesters have to make any disclosures about the source of their funds? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11977769 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_KQED_SanMateo_ElectionsOffice_10212020_qut-1020x680.jpg']Not during the daily recount deposit process. Any involvement from outside political groups, such as super PACs operating separately from the campaigns, could be revealed in campaign finance disclosures filed in the coming weeks and months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Once the recount begins, are requesters required to pay for the entire count? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. Requesters can choose to stop paying at any point, which could end the count. However, this would void any change in results revealed during the recount up to that point. For a change in the final result to be certified, every precinct in the district needs to be counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can stop, but the process stops at that time, and there are no changes,” said Jim Irizarry, assistant chief elections officer in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What is the process for actually counting the ballots? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The machine recount process is very similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841201/you-mailed-your-ballot-where-does-it-go-and-when-is-it-counted\">how ballots are initially counted after polls close.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have these tabulation machines in a secure facility,” Borja said. “After retrieving the ballots, the ballots will be put into the machines for counting … and the machines are pretty much scanning the ballots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballots that the machine has trouble counting will get moved to an adjudication process. These can include ballots in which the voter used red ink or marked their choice in a way the machine could not decipher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the adjudication process, there are two people looking at the same ballot on two screens,” Borja said. “They have to both agree on what the voter’s intent was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election workers reviewing the ballots can ask for help from a supervisor, and observers can also challenge an initial determination and ask for an appeal to a more senior elections official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The requester, in this case Padilla, determines the order of the ballots counted on each day — meaning that they can ask election officials to start with a precinct in Campbell, followed by one in Los Gatos, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What happens to ballots that were not counted in the initial tally, such as those with signature issues? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is perhaps the biggest outstanding question heading into the recount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In every election, vote counters flag ballots that have issues preventing them from being processed. Typically, those are ballots in which the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974391/i-made-a-mistake-on-my-ballot-how-to-fix-presidential-primary-california-election-2024#mistake\">voter forgot to sign their envelope or wrote a signature that doesn’t match the signature\u003c/a> on the voter’s file.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Election officials contacted voters with these issues in hopes of “curing” their ballots, but the deadline for voters to respond and remedy the issues was back on April 2. In Santa Clara County, 115 ballots were left uncured by the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On paper, those ballots are ineligible to be tallied in the recount. But Padilla is asking for a review of “unvoted ballots” and “all materials used to verify voter signatures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible that Padilla or his attorneys could challenge the decision to place a ballot in the “cure” pile — a move that could lead to additional review by the top elections officer or even legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as we’ve seen in the past, it’s not unheard of for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977769/feel-like-your-vote-doesnt-matter-check-out-these-close-election-results\">local or state elections to ultimately be decided by a relatively small number of votes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How can the public follow along with the outcome of this recount? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Irizarry said San Mateo officials will publicize the vote tally at the end of every day of recounting ballots. In Santa Clara, however, Borja said the recount results would only be made public at the end of the entire process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, true clarity on one of the wildest primary elections in California history may not happen until later in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Election officials in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties are recounting ballots in the 16th Congressional District race, which could break a tie between Evan Low and Joe Simitian.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713223330,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":47,"wordCount":1542},"headData":{"title":"Silicon Valley Readies for Low-Simitian House Race Recount — but How Does It Work? | KQED","description":"Election officials in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties are recounting ballots in the 16th Congressional District race, which could break a tie between Evan Low and Joe Simitian.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11982871/evan-low-joe-simitian-recount-16th-congressional-district","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A closely watched congressional race in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties has already seen weeks of deadlocked ballot counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981809/in-extraordinary-tie-evan-low-and-joe-simitian-both-advance-in-race-for-silicon-valley-house-seat\">there was a historically tied finish\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, this race is taking yet another wild twist: On Monday, election officials started the process of recounting ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new count could break the precarious tie for second place between Assemblymember Evan Low and Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian, who finished behind fellow Democrat Sam Liccardo, the former mayor of San José, in the March primary. If \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982090/unpredictable-race-for-silicon-valley-congressional-seat-after-unprecedented-tie\">the results stand, all three candidates will advance\u003c/a> to the general election in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11981809","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240403-Low-Simitian-MD-02-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The recount has been accompanied by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982501/requests-for-recount-could-upend-silicon-valley-race-for-congress\">political mystery, clashes between the campaigns and their allies\u003c/a> and a whole host of procedural questions. Here’s what we know about how the recount in the 16th Congressional District will work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#lowsimitianrecountrequest\">Who can request an electoral recount?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#lowsimitianrecountcost\">How much will this recount cost and where is the money coming from?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Why is this recount happening?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Unlike \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/election-recounts\">roughly two dozen states\u003c/a>, California does not have a law triggering recounts in close races for federal or state offices. Santa Clara has an automatic recount law on the books, but it only applies to local races, not a federal contest like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, recounts are triggered by a request from a voter in the district. Two voters, Dan Stegink and Jonathan Padilla, asked for this recount — but Stegink ultimately withdrew his request, and only Padilla put down the necessary deposit to fund the process (more on that later).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla previously worked for Liccardo and has supported his campaign, leading to criticisms that his pursuit of a new count was motivated by a desire to narrow the field of candidates to advantage Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three campaigns said they have no involvement in the recount requests. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982501/requests-for-recount-could-upend-silicon-valley-race-for-congress\">Read more about the backstory of this recount.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"lowsimitianrecountrequest\">\u003c/a>Under what circumstances is a recount allowed?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Any voter can request a recount — for any office in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For statewide offices (such as attorney general or insurance commissioner) or statewide ballot measures where the margin between candidates is within 1,000 votes or 0.00015%, the governor can order a state-funded, manual recount of every vote cast.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How long will the recount take? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The recount will only cover votes in the 16th Congressional District, which includes Palo Alto, Mountain View, and parts of San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recount could be completed within five days, according to Michael Borja, associate communications officer at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The very first action item would be to retrieve the ballots from storage and retrieve the complete precincts that are requested,” Borja said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11982501","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240303-Liccardo-HQ-KSM-1_qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Monday, Santa Clara County election workers began retrieving the ballots for precincts within the 16th Congressional District. That initial processing will take at least a day, with the counting likely beginning in earnest on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recount process was set to begin parallel in San Mateo County, but as of Monday morning, election officials said no payment had been received.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"lowsimitianrecountcost\">\u003c/a>How much will the recount cost?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials estimate a daily cost of $16,800 for this machine recount, leading to an estimated total cost of $84,200 to count every relevant ballot in the county. In San Mateo, officials pegged the cost of a machine review at $4,550 per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his request, Padilla also requested a review of disqualified ballots, envelopes and other materials and system logs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those will incur additional cost on top of the costs for the [new] tally,” Borja said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who is paying for the recount? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla will have to place a daily deposit to cover the costs of that day’s recount work. If he fails to make the daily payment, Padilla’s recount request will end — although he has suggested that he is, in fact, ready to make the daily payments necessary to carry out a recount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can the recount requesters get their money back? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe. A recount requester must specify which candidate they are requesting the recount on behalf of. If the results change in that candidate’s favor, the county assumes the cost of the recount and refunds the requester. That means local taxpayers \u003cem>could \u003c/em>be on the hook, depending on the recount’s result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla listed Evan Low as the candidate he is requesting a recount on behalf of, although Low’s campaign was not involved and opposed the request. If Low moves ahead of Simitian after a recount, Padilla could get his money back, according to election officials in both counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for Low dispute that reading of the state’s law on recount refunds, however. In a Friday letter to the county registrars, they argued that Low is already in the general election as a result of the tied vote. Therefore, Padilla should not be refunded if Low moves ahead of Simitian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do the requesters have to make any disclosures about the source of their funds? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11977769","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_KQED_SanMateo_ElectionsOffice_10212020_qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Not during the daily recount deposit process. Any involvement from outside political groups, such as super PACs operating separately from the campaigns, could be revealed in campaign finance disclosures filed in the coming weeks and months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Once the recount begins, are requesters required to pay for the entire count? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No. Requesters can choose to stop paying at any point, which could end the count. However, this would void any change in results revealed during the recount up to that point. For a change in the final result to be certified, every precinct in the district needs to be counted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can stop, but the process stops at that time, and there are no changes,” said Jim Irizarry, assistant chief elections officer in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What is the process for actually counting the ballots? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The machine recount process is very similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841201/you-mailed-your-ballot-where-does-it-go-and-when-is-it-counted\">how ballots are initially counted after polls close.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have these tabulation machines in a secure facility,” Borja said. “After retrieving the ballots, the ballots will be put into the machines for counting … and the machines are pretty much scanning the ballots.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballots that the machine has trouble counting will get moved to an adjudication process. These can include ballots in which the voter used red ink or marked their choice in a way the machine could not decipher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the adjudication process, there are two people looking at the same ballot on two screens,” Borja said. “They have to both agree on what the voter’s intent was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election workers reviewing the ballots can ask for help from a supervisor, and observers can also challenge an initial determination and ask for an appeal to a more senior elections official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The requester, in this case Padilla, determines the order of the ballots counted on each day — meaning that they can ask election officials to start with a precinct in Campbell, followed by one in Los Gatos, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What happens to ballots that were not counted in the initial tally, such as those with signature issues? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is perhaps the biggest outstanding question heading into the recount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In every election, vote counters flag ballots that have issues preventing them from being processed. Typically, those are ballots in which the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11974391/i-made-a-mistake-on-my-ballot-how-to-fix-presidential-primary-california-election-2024#mistake\">voter forgot to sign their envelope or wrote a signature that doesn’t match the signature\u003c/a> on the voter’s file.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Election officials contacted voters with these issues in hopes of “curing” their ballots, but the deadline for voters to respond and remedy the issues was back on April 2. In Santa Clara County, 115 ballots were left uncured by the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On paper, those ballots are ineligible to be tallied in the recount. But Padilla is asking for a review of “unvoted ballots” and “all materials used to verify voter signatures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible that Padilla or his attorneys could challenge the decision to place a ballot in the “cure” pile — a move that could lead to additional review by the top elections officer or even legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as we’ve seen in the past, it’s not unheard of for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977769/feel-like-your-vote-doesnt-matter-check-out-these-close-election-results\">local or state elections to ultimately be decided by a relatively small number of votes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How can the public follow along with the outcome of this recount? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Irizarry said San Mateo officials will publicize the vote tally at the end of every day of recounting ballots. In Santa Clara, however, Borja said the recount results would only be made public at the end of the entire process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, true clarity on one of the wildest primary elections in California history may not happen until later in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11982871/evan-low-joe-simitian-recount-16th-congressional-district","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_32707","news_20149","news_32839","news_29089","news_182","news_29808","news_17968","news_6413","news_353"],"featImg":"news_11982872","label":"news"},"news_11967439":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11967439","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11967439","score":null,"sort":[1700235058000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process","title":"How Can I Call My Representative? A Step-by-Step Guide to the Process","publishDate":1700235058,"format":"image","headTitle":"How Can I Call My Representative? A Step-by-Step Guide to the Process | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]E[/dropcap]lected officials might not always feel accessible to their constituents. But making coordinated calls to flood a representative’s phone line is one way for voters in the United States to make their thoughts known — about various causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ezra Levin is deeply familiar with the process of calling up a politician. \u003ca href=\"https://indivisible.org/ezra-levin-0\">Levin is the co-founder of Indivisible\u003c/a>, a progressive organization created in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidency, and said since 2016, he’s seen a lot of people who weren’t previously engaged in political activity decide to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t imagine that somebody like Donald Trump could get close to the presidency, let alone build a Republican trifecta with it,” Levin told KQED. “And so what we witnessed was a lot of folks learning how Congress works and how to effectively make their voice heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to our guide: \u003ca href=\"#howtocallrep\">How does calling your representative work?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Levin says that he sees this kind of “engagement with Congress coming in spikes” when it comes to constituents feeling compelled to contact their elected representatives — for example, “in moments where there is a real threat of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962810/government-shutdown-from-national-parks-and-air-travel-to-immigration-how-california-could-be-affected\">a government shutdown\u003c/a>, or when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11619108/is-president-trumps-latest-travel-ban-a-muslim-ban\">Trump issues the Muslim ban back in 2017\u003c/a>, or when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952673/to-get-abortion-training-some-medical-students-must-leave-their-states-and-come-to-california\">abortion rights\u003c/a> are being threatened as they as they are right now, or when the Affordable Care Act is possibly going to be repealed.” In those cases, Levin says his organization then sees “surge[s] of activity, because folks are worried that Congress is going to do something, or are frustrated that Congress or the president isn’t taking action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The phone doesn’t stop ringing’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of those spikes in political activity and direct action has come in the last several weeks in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/20/1207549467/loved-ones-of-hamas-attack-victims-diverge-over-israels-war-on-gaza\">Hamas launched an attack into Israel from Gaza that killed at least 1,200 people, taking approximately 240 hostages\u003c/a>, according to the Israeli government. In the weeks since, Israel’s attacks on Gaza have killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/gaza-rising-death-toll-civilians/\">more than 11,000 people\u003c/a>, many of whom were children, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-health-ministry-health-death-toll-59470820308b31f1faf73c703400b033\">Health Ministry in Gaza\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/un-says-gaza-health-ministry-death-tolls-in-previous-wars\">a source \u003c/a>the United Nations has deemed credible in the past.) Thousands more Palestinians have been wounded during Israeli air raids, with around \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/israel-hamas-war-gaza-strip-conflict/card/u-n-says-1-4-million-gazans-internally-displaced-ChaeqiwXv2YoYakju2zl\">1.4 million internally displaced\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/09/1211571220/israel-gaza-damage-map-satellite-imagery\">a third of Gaza City damaged\u003c/a>. (Read more about the decades-long background from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1205445976/middle-east-crisis\">NPR in their ‘Middle East crisis — explained’ series\u003c/a>.)[aside postID=news_11967633 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/GettyImages-1542268740-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, thousands of Bay Area residents have continued to take to the streets \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966423/thousands-of-protestors-rally-in-san-francisco-calling-for-immediate-cease-fire-in-gaza\">in support of a cease-fire in Gaza\u003c/a>. By contrast, California Rep. Nancy Pelosi has called a possible cease-fire \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jacobkornbluh/status/1720972806337286505\">“a gift to Hamas,”\u003c/a> and President Joe Biden — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967074/as-apec-kicks-off-protestors-are-descending-on-san-francisco-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">who is currently in San Francisco this week \u003c/a>for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference (APEC) — has so far \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/11/09/remarks-by-president-biden-before-marine-one-departure-39/\">rejected the possibility of a cease-fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From national organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/urgent-tell-congress-to-stop-fueling-violence/\">Jewish Voice for Peace\u003c/a> to local businesses like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CzZ_SL_pdD6/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\">Reem’s Cafe in San Francisco’s Mission District\u003c/a>, several progressive groups have now facilitated phone banks to urge people to call their representatives and ask for their support in a cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Mike Thompson, who represents California’s 4th Congressional District, including counties like Napa, Solano and Sonoma, told KQED in an interview that his Bay Area constituents have been reaching out to make their thoughts known to him. Thompson said he’d met recently “with a group who believe a cease-fire is the way to go” — but that he’d also heard from “numerous other constituents throughout my district” in condemnation of Oct. 7, expressing “that Israel has a right to defend themselves and … to work to get the hostages back.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967633/heres-where-bay-area-electeds-stand-on-israels-siege-of-gaza\">Hear more from KQED’s podcast The Bay on how local elected officials stand on Israel’s siege of Gaza.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent Huffington Post story reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/calls-for-congress-ceasefire-gaza-israel_n_654d4d0ce4b0373d70b16b0f\">Democratic staffers are currently seeing an “unprecedented” number of calls and emails\u003c/a> supporting a cease-fire and that offices were unprepared for it. According to the story, one anonymous staffer says, “The phone doesn’t stop ringing at any point in the day,” several offices were told to let calls go to voicemail.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"howtocallrep\">\u003c/a>So what \u003ci>does \u003c/i>‘call your reps’ actually mean?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you want to contact your elected officials to express your opinion on something, the process — who to contact, how to do that, what to say, and what kind of response you’ll receive — can seem confusing, especially if it’s your first time doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin acknowledges that it “can be very difficult to wrap your arms around something as complex as the United States federal government and how representative democracy works,” but said he believes “it’s only healthy for democracy, regardless of what your ideological persuasion is, for a lot of folks in the country to understand exactly how the government works — and how they can fit into it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public reaction and this kind of direct address to elected officials “certainly has an impact,” said Janine Zacharia, former Washington Post Jerusalem bureau chief who is now a lecturer at Stanford University’s Department of Communication. From the White House to members of Congress, “everybody watches public sentiment,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke to Levin and Seth Morrison, a Bay Area resident and the Bay Area chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace Legislative Work Group’s coordinator, on what constituents should know about calling their representative’s office in support or criticism — of any cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#whoismyrep\">Who do I contact, and how do I find their details?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#whathappens\">Who picks up my call or email, and what happens to it?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#howtocommunicate\">What can I say to make my call or email most effective?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#arangeinpersonmeetingrep\">How can I arrange an in-person meeting with an official?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#townhalls\">How do town halls work?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"whoismyrep\">\u003c/a>How do I find my elected officials’ contact details?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can find your state senator, state assembly member, or congressional representative\u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/who-are-my-representatives\"> through this California state government website\u003c/a>. Advocacy groups may also have their lists — for example, \u003ca href=\"https://indivisiblesf.org/call-your-reps\">Indivisible’s ‘Contact Your Reps’ list for San Francisco residents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your federal-level elected officials include Sens. Alex Padilla and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963215/laphonza-butler-senate-appointment-draws-praise-speculation-over-2024-plans\">Laphonza Butler\u003c/a> and representatives in the House — as well as the President himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your state-level elected officials are politicians like Gov. Gavin Newsom, assembly members, and state senators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite their similar titles, \u003ca href=\"https://www.lesniakinstitute.org/state-senator-or-congressional-senator-what-is-the-difference-and-why-should-you-care/\">federal senators and state senators are two different positions\u003c/a> and scopes of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When should I contact my representative versus my senator?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a quick government refresher, a representative is in the House and leads a slice of the population within the state (although sometimes the same town has different representatives). Your senator, on the other hand, represents the entire state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin said that, in most cases, when you want to express your concerns, you would call both your representative and your senator — although “there are special circumstances where you would probably want to focus on one or the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One example of this would be when we’re talking about the confirmation of federal judges,” Levin said. “The House does not have a role in that. It’s fully done by the Senate.”[aside postID='news_11967137,news_11966518,news_11821950' label='More Guides From KQED']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the vast majority of legislative questions, it \u003ci>is \u003c/i>both the House and the Senate that get to vote. For those who want to dig a little deeper into special circumstances, you can look up where your House member or senator has power by which committee they sit on. (You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.house.gov/representatives#name-p\">find that information on Congress’s website\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it’s not the full House or the full Senate that is voting for a particular piece of legislation, but instead is being considered in one of these committees,” Levin said. “So, for instance, if you’ve got a representative who happens to be on the Budget Committee, and the Budget Committee is first going to be considering the budget before it goes to the full House, you could focus your attention on that member — because they’re going to exercise an additional amount of power at that first step before it goes to the to the Senate, or before it goes to the full House.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Morrison with Jewish Voice for Peace also advised people to try both approaches when contacting their reps about any issue. However, he said senators are harder to move since they represent the entire state and are up for election every six years. (Members of Congress are up for election every two years.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if you have a higher-level issue,” Morrison said — like air pollution throughout the state, for example, and “if you have support from around the state, definitely go to the senator’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you would like a politician to take up your personal case, whether it involves Medicare (MediCal in California), Social Security, or the Veterans Administration, “the senator’s office can sometimes have more weight than the representative’s office,” Morrison noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967627\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967627\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/GettyImages-1444405762-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a person wearing a pink shirt holding a black cellphone as if dialing a number. Their face is not visible.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/GettyImages-1444405762-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/GettyImages-1444405762-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/GettyImages-1444405762-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/GettyImages-1444405762-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/GettyImages-1444405762-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you haven’t contacted your elected officials before, it can be confusing knowing where to start. \u003ccite>(Tim Robberts/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Should I also call representatives other than my own?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Probably not. Since representatives are focusing on their reelection, they will likely only heed calls from their constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin said people from other states may read or watch the news and feel strongly about the policies and positions of another state, compelling them to call that district’s representative. However, he said he’s also familiar with how staffers directed these messages from his own time as a congressional staffer prior to starting Indivisible — and says, “We called it the recycling bin because it \u003ci>was \u003c/i>the recycling bin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just did not respond to folks from outside the district,” Levin said. “So focusing on your own representative or your own senator is a great first place to start.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s not a knock against those other representatives or senators from the other states or districts,” he clarified. “It’s literally how our representative democracy is structured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"whathappens\">\u003c/a>Who will answer my call or email, and what will they do with it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Levin said if you are making a call, it will likely be picked up by an intern or a young staffer — and he knows that this makes some folks concerned they’re “not having influence,” or that they might worry “‘‘Oh, there is a 20-year-old who’s answering the phone — how much impact could this actually have?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But any competent congressional office is monitoring all of the incoming communication at their office,” stressed Levin. “Which means that intern or that junior staffer is taking down your information: Who you are, what your address is, what your concerns are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin said the staffers then enter that information into a database that the office maintains. Good congressional offices — “ones that hope to do a good job proving to their constituents that they’re actually listening” — keep track of that information, he said. And on a regular basis, those staffers tally up communication from constituents to tell senior staff how many calls they received and the breakdown of who was for an issue and who was against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While calls and emails like this may not \u003ci>immediately \u003c/i>shift the opinion of the member of Congress, they will factor into their “political calculus,” Levin explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every House member, every Senate senator is waking up every morning thinking, ‘How am I going to get reelected?’” Levin said. “And that gives constituents, particularly organized groups of constituents, a fair amount of power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"howtocommunicate\">\u003c/a>What do I actually say or write when I’m contacting my representatives?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can call, email or send a letter to your representative. (People on social media have also suggested using faxing to make their representative’s office deal with physical requests and concerns. \u003ca href=\"https://faxzero.com/\">Faxzero is one way to do this online\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin said calling on the phone is worthwhile — and can be “relatively easy” to do. He said you can talk for a minute or so, and advises you to make sure to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Give the staffer your name and address — so they can verify you are a legitimate constituent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Request a response in writing “so that they actually have to look at what you said and take time to write a response to that,” Levin explained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If they do not respond after a few days, follow up and say you still feel passionately about your issue: “‘Hey, I wrote two or three days ago, still haven’t heard — this issue is still really very much on my mind, in the minds of many of the people I’m talking to in our community. I would love to hear a response,’” Levin said as an example. Most congressional offices have “pretty sophisticated” constituent response systems, Levin added, so they should be writing back.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“You do not need to feel like you are the world’s preeminent expert on whatever issue it is that you’re calling on,” Levin said. “You want to be reasonably informed, and you want to know what you’re asking for, but it is okay for your legitimacy to come from the fact that you are a constituent, and they are in office to represent you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I make sure I get my point across?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Your passion for an issue might feel overwhelming once you get on the phone. But Morrison and Levin both advise callers to stay measured once they are talking to a staffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re building a relationship, it’s sometimes hard, but be polite,” Morrison said. “These are staff people. They’re doing their job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be aware that the staffer you’re speaking to “cannot commit the senator or the representative” to a particular position then and there, advised Morrison. “Recognize that they have their policies and procedures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin said even if one’s anger is reasonable, a caller may be written off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually offices will flag those folks [who curse or threaten staffers] and refuse to interact with them,” he said. “You want to come off as a reasonable, informed constituent that you are and try to make your opinion persuasively based on your own experience and your own consideration of the issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While you can“be firm in your opinion, and be firm in requesting a response,” Levin noted that “politeness actually does work well with these offices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrison added it’s all a matter of frequency and volume — having many people call and email their elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"townhalls\">\u003c/a>What about town halls? How do they work?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Levin said one very common thing both House and Senate members have historically done is hold regular town hall meetings where the public could go and ask their politicians questions. In his experience, these town halls were generally not well attended before the election that made Donald Trump president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember that the volume of public response matters — so Morrison advises, “If the congressperson has a town hall meeting in your district, bring ten people to the town hall meeting and ask your question.” The “bottom line is: They want to get reelected,” he said. “And so if there are large groups of people in their district that disagree with them, they need to hear [that.]”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if you look on your representatives’ website and see they haven’t held a town hall or public event to engage with constituents in a while? In this situation, Levin said it is a reasonable request to nudge them for one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your representatives and senators should be expected to show up and talk to you because they do, in quite a literal sense, work for you,” he said. “They are employed to represent you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For representatives who aren’t responsive, Levin said some groups have organized “empty chair town halls, ” where constituents organize the meeting and invite members of Congress to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if they don’t show up, they’ve got a cardboard cutout and an empty chair representing them,” he said. “I remember \u003ca href=\"https://www.wxyz.com/news/angry-constituents-bring-chicken-to-town-hall\">one example in Michigan where they brought a live chicken on stage\u003c/a> to represent the member because he just refused to show up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That kind of name-and-shame tactic can be useful in encouraging your member of Congress to actually listen to constituents,” Levin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967703\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/iStock_000010140379_Large-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a white coat and red beret sits at an outdoor table on the phone, writing on a notepad.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/iStock_000010140379_Large-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/iStock_000010140379_Large-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/iStock_000010140379_Large-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/iStock_000010140379_Large-qut-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you’re looking to contact your elected officials, who you should contact can depend on what you want to discuss with them. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Do I still need to do anything if I’m actually \u003ci>happy \u003c/i>with my representative’s position?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let’s say that you do, in fact, appreciate your representative’s action or stance on an issue. Levin said that as a former staff member, any messages of support were much appreciated since they were so rare in an onslaught of emails and calls — sometimes even printed and directly handed to the chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, you could appreciate your representative’s position but worry about the position of the neighboring district’s representative. If this is the case, Levin said you can ask your representative to apply pressure to \u003ci>that \u003c/i>district’s representative — although they will likely only do it in the case that the neighboring district belongs to the opposing party (that is, Democrats will not likely travel to another Democrat’s district.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some representatives may even travel into the neighboring district and hold their own public town hall — if the latter’s representative is unwilling to talk about the issue. That action has two benefits, Levin said: “One, it highlights the fact that that member in a neighboring district has an unpopular position. And two: It builds constituent support in that district to apply pressure to that member.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"arangeinpersonmeetingrep\">\u003c/a>What if I want to meet with my elected official in person — say, about a personal case?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Morrison said it was important to start your outreach with the member of Congress’ staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congresspeople get hundreds, if not thousands, of inquiries every day — and their staff are a key part of the team,” Morrison said. “And the best way to get a meeting with the congressperson is to first meet with their staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two sets of staff for a member of Congress, Morrison explained. District staff works on areas like Social Security, Medicare (Medi-Cal in California) and Veteran’s Affairs. These district staff will usually be your first point of contact and are called ‘constituent services.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other set of staffers are those working on policy-level decisions — and they’ll often be based in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, staffers won’t commit their boss to a position on anything in the moment. Rather, Morrison said, a staffer will tell you something like“‘Thank you so much for coming. The congressperson is very concerned about your views.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you can rest assured that they will pass the information on to the D.C. office,” Morrison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you ask the district office to look into your personal case, like Medi-Cal, you will likely need to fill out a form to give a member of Congress permission to investigate it. After a week or so, you can follow up with a call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For policy-related issues, you must also fill out the form to meet with the D.C. staff. This is normal government etiquette, Morrison said. He recommends filling out the form and explaining whether you are an individual or part of a group and why you want to meet. There is a good chance those staffers are overburdened, so be realistic that you may need to do it a few times, Morrison explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re new to this, they will come back to you and say, ‘Gee, the congressperson is really, really busy. We’re in session right now. Could you meet with the staff person? My advice is, agree to that,” Morrison said. “We can’t all meet with the congressperson on every issue … Be prepared for a very concise meeting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of their workload, a staffer will most likely offer you a short time slot with them — 15 or 20 minutes, says Morrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this situation, “accept whatever they offer and be tight,” Morrison said. “If they offer you a 20-minute meeting, plan [for] 15.” Make sure you concisely present your issue, he advises, and be clear that there are a lot of constituents experiencing the same thing if that’s accurate. “Follow up with an email, but also make clear that your goal is to meet with the member. Because that’s really where decisions get made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrison said it is appropriate to ask for a staff person’s title and email when you meet with them to send a follow-up email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I feel like I’m getting nowhere with these private communications?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you feel like you’re hitting a brick wall with the office and not being listened to, Levin said it could be time to get public attention for your position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make it difficult for them to just ignore you because it is extremely easy for a representative or a senator to ignore a single constituent,” Levin said. “A typical House member represents somewhere on the order of 750,000 people. A California senator represents nearly 40 million people. One constituent is easy to ignore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But groups of constituents are far more difficult to ignore, he said: “Particularly groups of constituents that are getting positive press for the position that they hold, and the senator representative does not hold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin said showing up at rallies, gathering neighbors and writing op-eds for local press directed at a member of Congress are other ways of grabbing their attention in the public. On the latter tip, Levin noted that some staffers in congressional offices are charged with the task of combing through the local press in the district that mentions the member of Congress — all to be put in a binder and sent to higher-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Morrison from Jewish Voice for Peace said, “civil disobedience is always a possibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You should consider it carefully and think about the pros and cons,” Morrison said. “But if you and a good group of people are deeply committed to an issue — if you’ve done your research and if you have tried through normal channels and not gotten a response — civil disobedience is something you should think about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil disobedience includes attending rallies — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">KQED has a guide from 2022 on your rights as a protester in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/protesters-occupy-oakland-federal-building-call-for-ceasefire-in-gaza.amp\">Morrison himself has been \u003c/a>involved in several actions to get members of the House and Senate to sign a resolution calling for a cease-fire, including an attempt to gather at Senator Alex Padilla’s offices — which was closed to them on Nov. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said freedom of speech and protest are valuable American tenets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it is a domestic or foreign issue, it is very important that you educate your members of the House and Senate,” Morrison said. And while he says he will “always suggest starting with the normal procedure” of reaching out to elected officials through the channels described above, Morrison said, “If the normal procedure is not working, and if you care enough about an issue, take to the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Many people contact their elected officials to express opinions across a spectrum of issues. Here’s what “call your reps” actually means, how to find the right contact details, and what you can expect from a reply.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700241854,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":80,"wordCount":4176},"headData":{"title":"How Can I Call My Representative? A Step-by-Step Guide to the Process | KQED","description":"Many people contact their elected officials to express opinions across a spectrum of issues. Here’s what “call your reps” actually means, how to find the right contact details, and what you can expect from a reply.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">E\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>lected officials might not always feel accessible to their constituents. But making coordinated calls to flood a representative’s phone line is one way for voters in the United States to make their thoughts known — about various causes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ezra Levin is deeply familiar with the process of calling up a politician. \u003ca href=\"https://indivisible.org/ezra-levin-0\">Levin is the co-founder of Indivisible\u003c/a>, a progressive organization created in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidency, and said since 2016, he’s seen a lot of people who weren’t previously engaged in political activity decide to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They didn’t imagine that somebody like Donald Trump could get close to the presidency, let alone build a Republican trifecta with it,” Levin told KQED. “And so what we witnessed was a lot of folks learning how Congress works and how to effectively make their voice heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to our guide: \u003ca href=\"#howtocallrep\">How does calling your representative work?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Levin says that he sees this kind of “engagement with Congress coming in spikes” when it comes to constituents feeling compelled to contact their elected representatives — for example, “in moments where there is a real threat of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962810/government-shutdown-from-national-parks-and-air-travel-to-immigration-how-california-could-be-affected\">a government shutdown\u003c/a>, or when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11619108/is-president-trumps-latest-travel-ban-a-muslim-ban\">Trump issues the Muslim ban back in 2017\u003c/a>, or when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952673/to-get-abortion-training-some-medical-students-must-leave-their-states-and-come-to-california\">abortion rights\u003c/a> are being threatened as they as they are right now, or when the Affordable Care Act is possibly going to be repealed.” In those cases, Levin says his organization then sees “surge[s] of activity, because folks are worried that Congress is going to do something, or are frustrated that Congress or the president isn’t taking action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The phone doesn’t stop ringing’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of those spikes in political activity and direct action has come in the last several weeks in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/10/20/1207549467/loved-ones-of-hamas-attack-victims-diverge-over-israels-war-on-gaza\">Hamas launched an attack into Israel from Gaza that killed at least 1,200 people, taking approximately 240 hostages\u003c/a>, according to the Israeli government. In the weeks since, Israel’s attacks on Gaza have killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/gaza-rising-death-toll-civilians/\">more than 11,000 people\u003c/a>, many of whom were children, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-health-ministry-health-death-toll-59470820308b31f1faf73c703400b033\">Health Ministry in Gaza\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/un-says-gaza-health-ministry-death-tolls-in-previous-wars\">a source \u003c/a>the United Nations has deemed credible in the past.) Thousands more Palestinians have been wounded during Israeli air raids, with around \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/israel-hamas-war-gaza-strip-conflict/card/u-n-says-1-4-million-gazans-internally-displaced-ChaeqiwXv2YoYakju2zl\">1.4 million internally displaced\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/09/1211571220/israel-gaza-damage-map-satellite-imagery\">a third of Gaza City damaged\u003c/a>. (Read more about the decades-long background from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1205445976/middle-east-crisis\">NPR in their ‘Middle East crisis — explained’ series\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11967633","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/GettyImages-1542268740-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, thousands of Bay Area residents have continued to take to the streets \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966423/thousands-of-protestors-rally-in-san-francisco-calling-for-immediate-cease-fire-in-gaza\">in support of a cease-fire in Gaza\u003c/a>. By contrast, California Rep. Nancy Pelosi has called a possible cease-fire \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jacobkornbluh/status/1720972806337286505\">“a gift to Hamas,”\u003c/a> and President Joe Biden — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967074/as-apec-kicks-off-protestors-are-descending-on-san-francisco-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">who is currently in San Francisco this week \u003c/a>for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference (APEC) — has so far \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/11/09/remarks-by-president-biden-before-marine-one-departure-39/\">rejected the possibility of a cease-fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From national organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/urgent-tell-congress-to-stop-fueling-violence/\">Jewish Voice for Peace\u003c/a> to local businesses like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CzZ_SL_pdD6/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\">Reem’s Cafe in San Francisco’s Mission District\u003c/a>, several progressive groups have now facilitated phone banks to urge people to call their representatives and ask for their support in a cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Mike Thompson, who represents California’s 4th Congressional District, including counties like Napa, Solano and Sonoma, told KQED in an interview that his Bay Area constituents have been reaching out to make their thoughts known to him. Thompson said he’d met recently “with a group who believe a cease-fire is the way to go” — but that he’d also heard from “numerous other constituents throughout my district” in condemnation of Oct. 7, expressing “that Israel has a right to defend themselves and … to work to get the hostages back.” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967633/heres-where-bay-area-electeds-stand-on-israels-siege-of-gaza\">Hear more from KQED’s podcast The Bay on how local elected officials stand on Israel’s siege of Gaza.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent Huffington Post story reported that \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/calls-for-congress-ceasefire-gaza-israel_n_654d4d0ce4b0373d70b16b0f\">Democratic staffers are currently seeing an “unprecedented” number of calls and emails\u003c/a> supporting a cease-fire and that offices were unprepared for it. According to the story, one anonymous staffer says, “The phone doesn’t stop ringing at any point in the day,” several offices were told to let calls go to voicemail.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"howtocallrep\">\u003c/a>So what \u003ci>does \u003c/i>‘call your reps’ actually mean?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you want to contact your elected officials to express your opinion on something, the process — who to contact, how to do that, what to say, and what kind of response you’ll receive — can seem confusing, especially if it’s your first time doing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin acknowledges that it “can be very difficult to wrap your arms around something as complex as the United States federal government and how representative democracy works,” but said he believes “it’s only healthy for democracy, regardless of what your ideological persuasion is, for a lot of folks in the country to understand exactly how the government works — and how they can fit into it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public reaction and this kind of direct address to elected officials “certainly has an impact,” said Janine Zacharia, former Washington Post Jerusalem bureau chief who is now a lecturer at Stanford University’s Department of Communication. From the White House to members of Congress, “everybody watches public sentiment,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke to Levin and Seth Morrison, a Bay Area resident and the Bay Area chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace Legislative Work Group’s coordinator, on what constituents should know about calling their representative’s office in support or criticism — of any cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#whoismyrep\">Who do I contact, and how do I find their details?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#whathappens\">Who picks up my call or email, and what happens to it?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#howtocommunicate\">What can I say to make my call or email most effective?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#arangeinpersonmeetingrep\">How can I arrange an in-person meeting with an official?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#townhalls\">How do town halls work?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"whoismyrep\">\u003c/a>How do I find my elected officials’ contact details?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can find your state senator, state assembly member, or congressional representative\u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/who-are-my-representatives\"> through this California state government website\u003c/a>. Advocacy groups may also have their lists — for example, \u003ca href=\"https://indivisiblesf.org/call-your-reps\">Indivisible’s ‘Contact Your Reps’ list for San Francisco residents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your federal-level elected officials include Sens. Alex Padilla and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963215/laphonza-butler-senate-appointment-draws-praise-speculation-over-2024-plans\">Laphonza Butler\u003c/a> and representatives in the House — as well as the President himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your state-level elected officials are politicians like Gov. Gavin Newsom, assembly members, and state senators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite their similar titles, \u003ca href=\"https://www.lesniakinstitute.org/state-senator-or-congressional-senator-what-is-the-difference-and-why-should-you-care/\">federal senators and state senators are two different positions\u003c/a> and scopes of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When should I contact my representative versus my senator?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As a quick government refresher, a representative is in the House and leads a slice of the population within the state (although sometimes the same town has different representatives). Your senator, on the other hand, represents the entire state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin said that, in most cases, when you want to express your concerns, you would call both your representative and your senator — although “there are special circumstances where you would probably want to focus on one or the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One example of this would be when we’re talking about the confirmation of federal judges,” Levin said. “The House does not have a role in that. It’s fully done by the Senate.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11967137,news_11966518,news_11821950","label":"More Guides From KQED "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the vast majority of legislative questions, it \u003ci>is \u003c/i>both the House and the Senate that get to vote. For those who want to dig a little deeper into special circumstances, you can look up where your House member or senator has power by which committee they sit on. (You can \u003ca href=\"https://www.house.gov/representatives#name-p\">find that information on Congress’s website\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it’s not the full House or the full Senate that is voting for a particular piece of legislation, but instead is being considered in one of these committees,” Levin said. “So, for instance, if you’ve got a representative who happens to be on the Budget Committee, and the Budget Committee is first going to be considering the budget before it goes to the full House, you could focus your attention on that member — because they’re going to exercise an additional amount of power at that first step before it goes to the to the Senate, or before it goes to the full House.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Morrison with Jewish Voice for Peace also advised people to try both approaches when contacting their reps about any issue. However, he said senators are harder to move since they represent the entire state and are up for election every six years. (Members of Congress are up for election every two years.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if you have a higher-level issue,” Morrison said — like air pollution throughout the state, for example, and “if you have support from around the state, definitely go to the senator’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you would like a politician to take up your personal case, whether it involves Medicare (MediCal in California), Social Security, or the Veterans Administration, “the senator’s office can sometimes have more weight than the representative’s office,” Morrison noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967627\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967627\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/GettyImages-1444405762-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a person wearing a pink shirt holding a black cellphone as if dialing a number. Their face is not visible.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/GettyImages-1444405762-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/GettyImages-1444405762-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/GettyImages-1444405762-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/GettyImages-1444405762-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/GettyImages-1444405762-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you haven’t contacted your elected officials before, it can be confusing knowing where to start. \u003ccite>(Tim Robberts/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Should I also call representatives other than my own?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Probably not. Since representatives are focusing on their reelection, they will likely only heed calls from their constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin said people from other states may read or watch the news and feel strongly about the policies and positions of another state, compelling them to call that district’s representative. However, he said he’s also familiar with how staffers directed these messages from his own time as a congressional staffer prior to starting Indivisible — and says, “We called it the recycling bin because it \u003ci>was \u003c/i>the recycling bin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just did not respond to folks from outside the district,” Levin said. “So focusing on your own representative or your own senator is a great first place to start.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that’s not a knock against those other representatives or senators from the other states or districts,” he clarified. “It’s literally how our representative democracy is structured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"whathappens\">\u003c/a>Who will answer my call or email, and what will they do with it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Levin said if you are making a call, it will likely be picked up by an intern or a young staffer — and he knows that this makes some folks concerned they’re “not having influence,” or that they might worry “‘‘Oh, there is a 20-year-old who’s answering the phone — how much impact could this actually have?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But any competent congressional office is monitoring all of the incoming communication at their office,” stressed Levin. “Which means that intern or that junior staffer is taking down your information: Who you are, what your address is, what your concerns are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin said the staffers then enter that information into a database that the office maintains. Good congressional offices — “ones that hope to do a good job proving to their constituents that they’re actually listening” — keep track of that information, he said. And on a regular basis, those staffers tally up communication from constituents to tell senior staff how many calls they received and the breakdown of who was for an issue and who was against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While calls and emails like this may not \u003ci>immediately \u003c/i>shift the opinion of the member of Congress, they will factor into their “political calculus,” Levin explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every House member, every Senate senator is waking up every morning thinking, ‘How am I going to get reelected?’” Levin said. “And that gives constituents, particularly organized groups of constituents, a fair amount of power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"howtocommunicate\">\u003c/a>What do I actually say or write when I’m contacting my representatives?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You can call, email or send a letter to your representative. (People on social media have also suggested using faxing to make their representative’s office deal with physical requests and concerns. \u003ca href=\"https://faxzero.com/\">Faxzero is one way to do this online\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin said calling on the phone is worthwhile — and can be “relatively easy” to do. He said you can talk for a minute or so, and advises you to make sure to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Give the staffer your name and address — so they can verify you are a legitimate constituent.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Request a response in writing “so that they actually have to look at what you said and take time to write a response to that,” Levin explained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If they do not respond after a few days, follow up and say you still feel passionately about your issue: “‘Hey, I wrote two or three days ago, still haven’t heard — this issue is still really very much on my mind, in the minds of many of the people I’m talking to in our community. I would love to hear a response,’” Levin said as an example. Most congressional offices have “pretty sophisticated” constituent response systems, Levin added, so they should be writing back.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“You do not need to feel like you are the world’s preeminent expert on whatever issue it is that you’re calling on,” Levin said. “You want to be reasonably informed, and you want to know what you’re asking for, but it is okay for your legitimacy to come from the fact that you are a constituent, and they are in office to represent you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I make sure I get my point across?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Your passion for an issue might feel overwhelming once you get on the phone. But Morrison and Levin both advise callers to stay measured once they are talking to a staffer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re building a relationship, it’s sometimes hard, but be polite,” Morrison said. “These are staff people. They’re doing their job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be aware that the staffer you’re speaking to “cannot commit the senator or the representative” to a particular position then and there, advised Morrison. “Recognize that they have their policies and procedures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin said even if one’s anger is reasonable, a caller may be written off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually offices will flag those folks [who curse or threaten staffers] and refuse to interact with them,” he said. “You want to come off as a reasonable, informed constituent that you are and try to make your opinion persuasively based on your own experience and your own consideration of the issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While you can“be firm in your opinion, and be firm in requesting a response,” Levin noted that “politeness actually does work well with these offices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrison added it’s all a matter of frequency and volume — having many people call and email their elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"townhalls\">\u003c/a>What about town halls? How do they work?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Levin said one very common thing both House and Senate members have historically done is hold regular town hall meetings where the public could go and ask their politicians questions. In his experience, these town halls were generally not well attended before the election that made Donald Trump president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember that the volume of public response matters — so Morrison advises, “If the congressperson has a town hall meeting in your district, bring ten people to the town hall meeting and ask your question.” The “bottom line is: They want to get reelected,” he said. “And so if there are large groups of people in their district that disagree with them, they need to hear [that.]”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if you look on your representatives’ website and see they haven’t held a town hall or public event to engage with constituents in a while? In this situation, Levin said it is a reasonable request to nudge them for one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your representatives and senators should be expected to show up and talk to you because they do, in quite a literal sense, work for you,” he said. “They are employed to represent you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For representatives who aren’t responsive, Levin said some groups have organized “empty chair town halls, ” where constituents organize the meeting and invite members of Congress to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if they don’t show up, they’ve got a cardboard cutout and an empty chair representing them,” he said. “I remember \u003ca href=\"https://www.wxyz.com/news/angry-constituents-bring-chicken-to-town-hall\">one example in Michigan where they brought a live chicken on stage\u003c/a> to represent the member because he just refused to show up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That kind of name-and-shame tactic can be useful in encouraging your member of Congress to actually listen to constituents,” Levin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11967703\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1440px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11967703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/iStock_000010140379_Large-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a white coat and red beret sits at an outdoor table on the phone, writing on a notepad.\" width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/iStock_000010140379_Large-qut.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/iStock_000010140379_Large-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/iStock_000010140379_Large-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/iStock_000010140379_Large-qut-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you’re looking to contact your elected officials, who you should contact can depend on what you want to discuss with them. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Do I still need to do anything if I’m actually \u003ci>happy \u003c/i>with my representative’s position?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Let’s say that you do, in fact, appreciate your representative’s action or stance on an issue. Levin said that as a former staff member, any messages of support were much appreciated since they were so rare in an onslaught of emails and calls — sometimes even printed and directly handed to the chief of staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, you could appreciate your representative’s position but worry about the position of the neighboring district’s representative. If this is the case, Levin said you can ask your representative to apply pressure to \u003ci>that \u003c/i>district’s representative — although they will likely only do it in the case that the neighboring district belongs to the opposing party (that is, Democrats will not likely travel to another Democrat’s district.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some representatives may even travel into the neighboring district and hold their own public town hall — if the latter’s representative is unwilling to talk about the issue. That action has two benefits, Levin said: “One, it highlights the fact that that member in a neighboring district has an unpopular position. And two: It builds constituent support in that district to apply pressure to that member.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"arangeinpersonmeetingrep\">\u003c/a>What if I want to meet with my elected official in person — say, about a personal case?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Morrison said it was important to start your outreach with the member of Congress’ staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congresspeople get hundreds, if not thousands, of inquiries every day — and their staff are a key part of the team,” Morrison said. “And the best way to get a meeting with the congressperson is to first meet with their staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two sets of staff for a member of Congress, Morrison explained. District staff works on areas like Social Security, Medicare (Medi-Cal in California) and Veteran’s Affairs. These district staff will usually be your first point of contact and are called ‘constituent services.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other set of staffers are those working on policy-level decisions — and they’ll often be based in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, staffers won’t commit their boss to a position on anything in the moment. Rather, Morrison said, a staffer will tell you something like“‘Thank you so much for coming. The congressperson is very concerned about your views.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you can rest assured that they will pass the information on to the D.C. office,” Morrison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you ask the district office to look into your personal case, like Medi-Cal, you will likely need to fill out a form to give a member of Congress permission to investigate it. After a week or so, you can follow up with a call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For policy-related issues, you must also fill out the form to meet with the D.C. staff. This is normal government etiquette, Morrison said. He recommends filling out the form and explaining whether you are an individual or part of a group and why you want to meet. There is a good chance those staffers are overburdened, so be realistic that you may need to do it a few times, Morrison explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re new to this, they will come back to you and say, ‘Gee, the congressperson is really, really busy. We’re in session right now. Could you meet with the staff person? My advice is, agree to that,” Morrison said. “We can’t all meet with the congressperson on every issue … Be prepared for a very concise meeting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of their workload, a staffer will most likely offer you a short time slot with them — 15 or 20 minutes, says Morrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this situation, “accept whatever they offer and be tight,” Morrison said. “If they offer you a 20-minute meeting, plan [for] 15.” Make sure you concisely present your issue, he advises, and be clear that there are a lot of constituents experiencing the same thing if that’s accurate. “Follow up with an email, but also make clear that your goal is to meet with the member. Because that’s really where decisions get made.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morrison said it is appropriate to ask for a staff person’s title and email when you meet with them to send a follow-up email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I feel like I’m getting nowhere with these private communications?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you feel like you’re hitting a brick wall with the office and not being listened to, Levin said it could be time to get public attention for your position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make it difficult for them to just ignore you because it is extremely easy for a representative or a senator to ignore a single constituent,” Levin said. “A typical House member represents somewhere on the order of 750,000 people. A California senator represents nearly 40 million people. One constituent is easy to ignore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But groups of constituents are far more difficult to ignore, he said: “Particularly groups of constituents that are getting positive press for the position that they hold, and the senator representative does not hold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin said showing up at rallies, gathering neighbors and writing op-eds for local press directed at a member of Congress are other ways of grabbing their attention in the public. On the latter tip, Levin noted that some staffers in congressional offices are charged with the task of combing through the local press in the district that mentions the member of Congress — all to be put in a binder and sent to higher-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Morrison from Jewish Voice for Peace said, “civil disobedience is always a possibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You should consider it carefully and think about the pros and cons,” Morrison said. “But if you and a good group of people are deeply committed to an issue — if you’ve done your research and if you have tried through normal channels and not gotten a response — civil disobedience is something you should think about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil disobedience includes attending rallies — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">KQED has a guide from 2022 on your rights as a protester in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/protesters-occupy-oakland-federal-building-call-for-ceasefire-in-gaza.amp\">Morrison himself has been \u003c/a>involved in several actions to get members of the House and Senate to sign a resolution calling for a cease-fire, including an attempt to gather at Senator Alex Padilla’s offices — which was closed to them on Nov. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said freedom of speech and protest are valuable American tenets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether it is a domestic or foreign issue, it is very important that you educate your members of the House and Senate,” Morrison said. And while he says he will “always suggest starting with the normal procedure” of reaching out to elected officials through the channels described above, Morrison said, “If the normal procedure is not working, and if you care enough about an issue, take to the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process","authors":["11867"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32707","news_20149","news_27626","news_182"],"featImg":"news_11967585","label":"news"},"news_11963007":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11963007","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11963007","score":null,"sort":[1696104967000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"house-passes-a-45-day-funding-plan-on-the-brink-of-federal-shutdown-sends-it-to-senate","title":"House Passes a 45-Day Funding Plan on the Brink of Federal Shutdown, Sends It to Senate","publishDate":1696104967,"format":"standard","headTitle":"House Passes a 45-Day Funding Plan on the Brink of Federal Shutdown, Sends It to Senate | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>On the brink of a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-congress-biden-trump-mccarthy-f1b06964cf549b09977677e5f70bf9ff\">federal government shutdown\u003c/a>, the House on Saturday swiftly approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open as Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/kevin-mccarthy\">Kevin McCarthy\u003c/a> dropped demands for steep spending cuts and relied on Democratic votes for passage to send the package to the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new approach would leave behind \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/zelenskyy-biden-washington-visit-congress-ukraine-war-1d20574fb3ea4fb5efcc7db5458a33a3#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20President%20Volodymyr,troops%20in%20the%20fight%20against\">aid to Ukraine\u003c/a>, a White House priority opposed by a growing number of GOP lawmakers, but the plan would increase \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-hurricane-flooding-fema-disaster-relief-budget-365fc3acd6a12c1f8e67b4926c8dc8b2\">federal disaster assistance by $16 billion,\u003c/a> meeting President Joe Biden’s full request. The package was approved 335–91, with most Republicans and almost all Democrats supporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With hours to go before the midnight deadline to fund the government, the Senate was also in for a rare weekend session and prepared to act next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to do our job,” McCarthy said before the House vote. “We’re going to be adults in the room. And we’re going to keep government open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no deal in place before Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/shutdown-gop-federal-workers-congress-government-5978a4c7411eba06261d16c3aff3dfc5\">federal workers will face furloughs\u003c/a>, more than 2 million active-duty and reserve military troops will work without pay and programs and services that Americans rely on from coast to coast will \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-snap-benefits-loans-travel-97b3a3b30624704da6eb204837a9135c\">begin to face shutdown disruptions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House measure would fund government at current 2023 levels for 45 days, through Nov. 17, moving closer to the bipartisan approach in the Senate. But the Senate package would have added $6 billion for Ukraine to fight the war against Russia and $6 billion for U.S. disaster relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both chambers came to a standstill as lawmakers assessed their options, some decrying the loss of Ukraine aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The American people deserve better,” said House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, warning in a lengthy floor speech that “extreme” Republicans were risking shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)\"]‘We’re going to do our job. We’re going to be adults in the room. And we’re going to keep government open’[/pullquote]For the House package to be approved, McCarthy (R-Calif.) was forced to rely on Democrats because the speaker’s hard-right flank has said it will oppose any short-term measure, risking his job amid calls for his ouster. Republicans hold a slim majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After leaving his right-flank behind, McCarthy is almost certain to be facing a motion to try to remove from office, though it is not at all certain there would be enough votes to topple the speaker. Most Republicans backed the package Saturday while fewer than half opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If somebody wants to remove me because I want to be the adult in the room, go ahead and try,” McCarthy said of the threat to oust him. “But I think this country is too important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House was tracking the developments on Capitol Hill and aides were briefing the president, who was spending the weekend in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quick pivot comes after the collapse Friday of McCarthy’s earlier plan to pass a Republican-only bill with steep spending cuts up to 30% to most government agencies that the White House and Democrats rejected as too extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our options are slipping away every minute,” said one senior Republican, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government is heading \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-congress-biden-trump-mccarthy-f1b06964cf549b09977677e5f70bf9ff\">straight into a shutdown\u003c/a> that poses grave uncertainty for federal workers in states all across America and the people who depend on them — from troops to border control agents to office workers, scientists and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11962810 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1674342663-1020x680.jpg']Families that rely on Head Start for children, food benefits and countless other programs large and small are \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-snap-benefits-loans-travel-97b3a3b30624704da6eb204837a9135c\">confronting potential interruptions or outright closures\u003c/a>. At the airports, Transportation Security Administration officers and air traffic controllers are expected to work without pay, but travelers could face delays in updating their U.S. passports or other travel documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An earlier McCarthy plan to keep the government open collapsed Friday due to opposition from a faction of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-votes-mccarthy-gop-caucus-gaetz-585c82607c00c2cfc45768faff6e1cda\">21 hard-right holdouts\u003c/a> despite steep spending cuts of nearly 30% to many agencies and severe border security provisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House has brushed aside McCarthy’s overtures to meet with Biden after the speaker walked away from the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-debt-ceiling-budget-signing-f78a000d83cf85ffbaa2d08637844053#:~:text=Washington%20News-,Biden%20signs%20debt%20ceiling%20bill%20that%20pulls,from%20brink%20of%20unprecedented%20default&text=WASHINGTON%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20With%20just,on%20the%20federal%20government's%20debt.\">debt deal\u003c/a> they brokered earlier this year that set budget levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catering to his hard-right flank, McCarthy had returned to the spending limits the conservatives demanded back in January as part of the deal-making to help him \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-house-of-representatives-kevin-mccarthy-us-republican-party-0938c7358f41c83759246f8949ac7c15\">become the House speaker\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Friday’s vote, McCarthy’s chief Republican critic, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, said the speaker’s bill “went down in flames as I’ve told you all week it would.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963010\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963010\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1698777233.jpg\" alt=\"A white man in a dark blue suit is photographed from below with microphones extending toward him and blue sky with clouds above.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1698777233.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1698777233-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1698777233-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1698777233-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) speaks with members of the media on the House steps on Sept. 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Nathan Howard/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gaetz has warned he will file a motion calling a vote to oust the speaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the Republican holdouts, including Gaetz, are allies of former President Donald Trump, who is Biden’s chief rival in the 2024 race. Trump has been encouraging the Republicans to fight hard for their priorities and even to “shut it down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an early closed-door meeting at the Capitol, several House Republicans, particularly those facing tough re-elections next year, urged their colleagues to find a way to prevent a shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us have a responsibility to lead and to govern,” said Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writer Colleen Long contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"On the brink of a federal government shutdown, the House has swiftly approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1696104967,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":988},"headData":{"title":"House Passes a 45-Day Funding Plan on the Brink of Federal Shutdown, Sends It to Senate | KQED","description":"On the brink of a federal government shutdown, the House has swiftly approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"nprByline":"Lisa Mascaro, Kevin Freking, Stephen Groves\u003cbr>The Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11963007/house-passes-a-45-day-funding-plan-on-the-brink-of-federal-shutdown-sends-it-to-senate","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On the brink of a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-congress-biden-trump-mccarthy-f1b06964cf549b09977677e5f70bf9ff\">federal government shutdown\u003c/a>, the House on Saturday swiftly approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open as Speaker \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/kevin-mccarthy\">Kevin McCarthy\u003c/a> dropped demands for steep spending cuts and relied on Democratic votes for passage to send the package to the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new approach would leave behind \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/zelenskyy-biden-washington-visit-congress-ukraine-war-1d20574fb3ea4fb5efcc7db5458a33a3#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20President%20Volodymyr,troops%20in%20the%20fight%20against\">aid to Ukraine\u003c/a>, a White House priority opposed by a growing number of GOP lawmakers, but the plan would increase \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfire-hurricane-flooding-fema-disaster-relief-budget-365fc3acd6a12c1f8e67b4926c8dc8b2\">federal disaster assistance by $16 billion,\u003c/a> meeting President Joe Biden’s full request. The package was approved 335–91, with most Republicans and almost all Democrats supporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With hours to go before the midnight deadline to fund the government, the Senate was also in for a rare weekend session and prepared to act next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to do our job,” McCarthy said before the House vote. “We’re going to be adults in the room. And we’re going to keep government open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no deal in place before Sunday, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/shutdown-gop-federal-workers-congress-government-5978a4c7411eba06261d16c3aff3dfc5\">federal workers will face furloughs\u003c/a>, more than 2 million active-duty and reserve military troops will work without pay and programs and services that Americans rely on from coast to coast will \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-snap-benefits-loans-travel-97b3a3b30624704da6eb204837a9135c\">begin to face shutdown disruptions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House measure would fund government at current 2023 levels for 45 days, through Nov. 17, moving closer to the bipartisan approach in the Senate. But the Senate package would have added $6 billion for Ukraine to fight the war against Russia and $6 billion for U.S. disaster relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both chambers came to a standstill as lawmakers assessed their options, some decrying the loss of Ukraine aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The American people deserve better,” said House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, warning in a lengthy floor speech that “extreme” Republicans were risking shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We’re going to do our job. We’re going to be adults in the room. And we’re going to keep government open’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For the House package to be approved, McCarthy (R-Calif.) was forced to rely on Democrats because the speaker’s hard-right flank has said it will oppose any short-term measure, risking his job amid calls for his ouster. Republicans hold a slim majority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After leaving his right-flank behind, McCarthy is almost certain to be facing a motion to try to remove from office, though it is not at all certain there would be enough votes to topple the speaker. Most Republicans backed the package Saturday while fewer than half opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If somebody wants to remove me because I want to be the adult in the room, go ahead and try,” McCarthy said of the threat to oust him. “But I think this country is too important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House was tracking the developments on Capitol Hill and aides were briefing the president, who was spending the weekend in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The quick pivot comes after the collapse Friday of McCarthy’s earlier plan to pass a Republican-only bill with steep spending cuts up to 30% to most government agencies that the White House and Democrats rejected as too extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our options are slipping away every minute,” said one senior Republican, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government is heading \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-congress-biden-trump-mccarthy-f1b06964cf549b09977677e5f70bf9ff\">straight into a shutdown\u003c/a> that poses grave uncertainty for federal workers in states all across America and the people who depend on them — from troops to border control agents to office workers, scientists and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11962810","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1674342663-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Families that rely on Head Start for children, food benefits and countless other programs large and small are \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-snap-benefits-loans-travel-97b3a3b30624704da6eb204837a9135c\">confronting potential interruptions or outright closures\u003c/a>. At the airports, Transportation Security Administration officers and air traffic controllers are expected to work without pay, but travelers could face delays in updating their U.S. passports or other travel documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An earlier McCarthy plan to keep the government open collapsed Friday due to opposition from a faction of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-votes-mccarthy-gop-caucus-gaetz-585c82607c00c2cfc45768faff6e1cda\">21 hard-right holdouts\u003c/a> despite steep spending cuts of nearly 30% to many agencies and severe border security provisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House has brushed aside McCarthy’s overtures to meet with Biden after the speaker walked away from the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-debt-ceiling-budget-signing-f78a000d83cf85ffbaa2d08637844053#:~:text=Washington%20News-,Biden%20signs%20debt%20ceiling%20bill%20that%20pulls,from%20brink%20of%20unprecedented%20default&text=WASHINGTON%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20With%20just,on%20the%20federal%20government's%20debt.\">debt deal\u003c/a> they brokered earlier this year that set budget levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Catering to his hard-right flank, McCarthy had returned to the spending limits the conservatives demanded back in January as part of the deal-making to help him \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-house-of-representatives-kevin-mccarthy-us-republican-party-0938c7358f41c83759246f8949ac7c15\">become the House speaker\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Friday’s vote, McCarthy’s chief Republican critic, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, said the speaker’s bill “went down in flames as I’ve told you all week it would.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963010\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963010\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1698777233.jpg\" alt=\"A white man in a dark blue suit is photographed from below with microphones extending toward him and blue sky with clouds above.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1698777233.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1698777233-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1698777233-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1698777233-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) speaks with members of the media on the House steps on Sept. 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. \u003ccite>(Nathan Howard/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gaetz has warned he will file a motion calling a vote to oust the speaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the Republican holdouts, including Gaetz, are allies of former President Donald Trump, who is Biden’s chief rival in the 2024 race. Trump has been encouraging the Republicans to fight hard for their priorities and even to “shut it down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an early closed-door meeting at the Capitol, several House Republicans, particularly those facing tough re-elections next year, urged their colleagues to find a way to prevent a shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us have a responsibility to lead and to govern,” said Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writer Colleen Long contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11963007/house-passes-a-45-day-funding-plan-on-the-brink-of-federal-shutdown-sends-it-to-senate","authors":["byline_news_11963007"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20149","news_1323","news_24796","news_3037","news_1204","news_182","news_1891","news_33273","news_21447"],"featImg":"news_11963009","label":"news"},"news_11932477":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11932477","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11932477","score":null,"sort":[1668646383000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"republicans-narrowly-retake-control-of-the-house-setting-up-divided-government","title":"Republicans Narrowly Retake Control of the House, Setting Up Divided Government","publishDate":1668646383,"format":"standard","headTitle":"NPR | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":253,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>It wasn't the red wave many top Republicans predicted, but the GOP eked out enough wins in contested seats to gain control of the House of Representatives, according to The Associated Press. With some races still not called a week after Election Day, Republicans picked up at least 218 seats, and will take over the chamber next year with GOP leaders facing blowback about failing to deliver in what many considered a favorable political environment for their party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potentially single-digit margin ushers in a new era of divided government in Washington. Going into the 2022 midterm elections, Democrats knew historic trends would favor that the party out of power gains seats. House Democrats' razor-thin five-seat majority, plus a significant number of retirements by veteran members, set up an uphill battle for them to retain power. Yet despite those historical headwinds, Democrats did much better than expected in this year's midterms and kept control of the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Republican House will likely clash on most issues with a Democratic Senate in 2023, with bitter fights over basic functions like funding the government threatening to paralyze Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GOP candidates hoped to capitalize on voter frustration with the rising costs of groceries and gas, framing the election as a referendum on President Joe Biden and his party's rule of both the White House and Congress. But voters in exit polls indicated other issues like abortion rights and protecting democracy factored into their decisions at the ballot box. Redistricting in New York and Florida also helped the GOP overcome lackluster results in most of the races rated as toss-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the president and top congressional leaders were from different parties was 2019, when Democrats regained control of the House in the 2018 midterms, two years after former President Donald Trump was elected president. A new House Republican majority will mean President Biden's legislative agenda is essentially dead, unless he can find bipartisan support for some narrowly crafted proposals. Biden's focus during the next two years of his presidency will likely be spent defending his signature accomplishments, like a bill lowering prescription drug prices and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/17/1117725655/the-spending-bill-will-cut-emissions-but-marginalized-groups-feel-they-were-sold\">investing\u003c/a> hundreds of billions of dollars to tackle climate change. GOP lawmakers have already said they want to roll back some of Biden's programs, or defund many of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden White House will also face an onslaught of investigations on a wide range of issues. Top GOP members on the House Oversight and Judiciary committees have already said they \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134449665/republicans-investigation-fbi-doj-midterms\">plan to probe\u003c/a> the business dealings of Biden's son, Hunter Biden, the president's border policies, the origins of the coronavirus, and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. But because the margin is so slim there may be pressure from more moderate Republicans to pull back on some of the probes and instead focus on issues that show a GOP chamber can govern.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New speaker of the House, new agenda\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is poised to take the gavel as speaker in January when the new Congress is sworn in and the full chamber votes on the top position, which is second in line to the presidency, after the vice president. McCarthy is a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump and will manage a GOP conference with many members largely loyal to Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though McCarthy is on track to win an internal vote for the post this week he doesn't have the 218 votes now that he will need in the public vote on January 3, when the new Congress elects a speaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy first ran for speaker in 2015 to succeed Speaker John Boehner, who was retiring. But he \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/08/446889538/mccarthy-drops-out-of-speaker-race-throwing-gop-leadership-into-chaos\">abruptly withdrew\u003c/a> from the race, a sign he recognized he didn't have the votes. He went on to serve as House Speaker Paul Ryan's number two at the leadership table, and since then has developed close relationships with many of the conservatives who derailed his initial bid for the top slot. McCarthy is regarded as skilled at developing personal relationships across his conference after years of criss-crossing the country campaigning and raising money for GOP candidates. But he has not developed much of a record as a legislator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy and top GOP leaders unveiled\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124486339/house-gop-unveils-its-legislative-roadmap-if-they-win-back-the-house-in-november\"> their agenda\u003c/a>, called a \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.republicanleader.gov/commitment/\">Commitment to America\u003c/a>\" in September. It focuses on broad goals in four areas: the economy, security, personal freedom and government accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep Jim. Jordan, who is expected to take the gavel as the chair of the House Judiciary Committee sent letters to \u003ca href=\"https://republicans-judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022-11-02-JDJ-to-Garland-re-responsiveness-politicization.pdf\">Attorney General Merrick Garland (PDF) \u003c/a>and FBI Director \u003ca href=\"https://republicans-judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022-11-02-JDJ-to-Wray-re-responsiveness.pdf\">Christopher Wray (PDF)\u003c/a> the week before the election outlining lengthy lists of materials the panel was seeking and directing the agency heads to preserve materials ahead of continuing probes in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans also plan to change House rules that currently allow for proxy voting — a practice Democrats put into place during the coronavirus pandemic. They also pledge to remove the magnetometers that were placed at entrances to the House floor following the January 6 attack on the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Questions about future of Democratic leaders, leftover business\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., 82, has not announced whether she will run to lead the House Democratic Caucus. In 2007, Pelosi became the first woman to be speaker, shattering the so-called marble ceiling in Congress. She took the gavel a second time in 2019, after leading her party back to the majority, but indicated that she would abide by a pledge that helped her secure the votes for speaker to term limit her tenure in leadership. Many newer members have expressed support for paving the way for a new, likely younger Democrat to take the helm of the caucus. The current caucus chair, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is expected to run for the post as minority leader if Pelosi decides to retire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Democrats' strong performance in the midterms has frozen any movement to replace Pelosi. She says some of her colleagues are urging her to run again for the top leadership post, and says the attack on her husband Paul Pelosi roughly 10 days before the election will impact her decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Republicans take control of the chamber, Congress is already preparing for a lame duck session that is expected to stretch into the end of the year. Leaders hope to finalize a bipartisan budget deal to fund government agencies through the rest of the fiscal year and avoid a possible government shutdown. Pelosi also indicated that she would like Congress to raise the debt limit to avoid any contentious debate and threat of default early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic leaders also plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/21/1124239193/house-legislation-electoral-count-act-reform\">pass legislation \u003c/a>that would clarify how Congress certifies the results of presidential elections with a revamp of the Electoral Count Act, a law first enacted in 1887. Confusion over provisions of the law was exploited by Trump and his allies on January 6, 2021 and lawmakers say the new law is needed to prevent another attack on the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Republicans picked up at least 218 seats and will take over the chamber next year, but GOP leaders face blowback about failing to deliver in what many considered a favorable political environment for their party.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1668646556,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":1195},"headData":{"title":"Republicans Narrowly Retake Control of the House, Setting Up Divided Government | KQED","description":"Republicans picked up at least 218 seats and will take over the chamber next year, but GOP leaders face blowback about failing to deliver in what many considered a favorable political environment for their party.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11932477 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11932477","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/11/16/republicans-narrowly-retake-control-of-the-house-setting-up-divided-government/","disqusTitle":"Republicans Narrowly Retake Control of the House, Setting Up Divided Government","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/617095374/deirdre-walsh\">Deirdre Walsh\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11932477/republicans-narrowly-retake-control-of-the-house-setting-up-divided-government","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It wasn't the red wave many top Republicans predicted, but the GOP eked out enough wins in contested seats to gain control of the House of Representatives, according to The Associated Press. With some races still not called a week after Election Day, Republicans picked up at least 218 seats, and will take over the chamber next year with GOP leaders facing blowback about failing to deliver in what many considered a favorable political environment for their party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potentially single-digit margin ushers in a new era of divided government in Washington. Going into the 2022 midterm elections, Democrats knew historic trends would favor that the party out of power gains seats. House Democrats' razor-thin five-seat majority, plus a significant number of retirements by veteran members, set up an uphill battle for them to retain power. Yet despite those historical headwinds, Democrats did much better than expected in this year's midterms and kept control of the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Republican House will likely clash on most issues with a Democratic Senate in 2023, with bitter fights over basic functions like funding the government threatening to paralyze Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GOP candidates hoped to capitalize on voter frustration with the rising costs of groceries and gas, framing the election as a referendum on President Joe Biden and his party's rule of both the White House and Congress. But voters in exit polls indicated other issues like abortion rights and protecting democracy factored into their decisions at the ballot box. Redistricting in New York and Florida also helped the GOP overcome lackluster results in most of the races rated as toss-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the president and top congressional leaders were from different parties was 2019, when Democrats regained control of the House in the 2018 midterms, two years after former President Donald Trump was elected president. A new House Republican majority will mean President Biden's legislative agenda is essentially dead, unless he can find bipartisan support for some narrowly crafted proposals. Biden's focus during the next two years of his presidency will likely be spent defending his signature accomplishments, like a bill lowering prescription drug prices and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/08/17/1117725655/the-spending-bill-will-cut-emissions-but-marginalized-groups-feel-they-were-sold\">investing\u003c/a> hundreds of billions of dollars to tackle climate change. GOP lawmakers have already said they want to roll back some of Biden's programs, or defund many of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden White House will also face an onslaught of investigations on a wide range of issues. Top GOP members on the House Oversight and Judiciary committees have already said they \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134449665/republicans-investigation-fbi-doj-midterms\">plan to probe\u003c/a> the business dealings of Biden's son, Hunter Biden, the president's border policies, the origins of the coronavirus, and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. But because the margin is so slim there may be pressure from more moderate Republicans to pull back on some of the probes and instead focus on issues that show a GOP chamber can govern.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>New speaker of the House, new agenda\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is poised to take the gavel as speaker in January when the new Congress is sworn in and the full chamber votes on the top position, which is second in line to the presidency, after the vice president. McCarthy is a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump and will manage a GOP conference with many members largely loyal to Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though McCarthy is on track to win an internal vote for the post this week he doesn't have the 218 votes now that he will need in the public vote on January 3, when the new Congress elects a speaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy first ran for speaker in 2015 to succeed Speaker John Boehner, who was retiring. But he \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/08/446889538/mccarthy-drops-out-of-speaker-race-throwing-gop-leadership-into-chaos\">abruptly withdrew\u003c/a> from the race, a sign he recognized he didn't have the votes. He went on to serve as House Speaker Paul Ryan's number two at the leadership table, and since then has developed close relationships with many of the conservatives who derailed his initial bid for the top slot. McCarthy is regarded as skilled at developing personal relationships across his conference after years of criss-crossing the country campaigning and raising money for GOP candidates. But he has not developed much of a record as a legislator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy and top GOP leaders unveiled\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124486339/house-gop-unveils-its-legislative-roadmap-if-they-win-back-the-house-in-november\"> their agenda\u003c/a>, called a \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.republicanleader.gov/commitment/\">Commitment to America\u003c/a>\" in September. It focuses on broad goals in four areas: the economy, security, personal freedom and government accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep Jim. Jordan, who is expected to take the gavel as the chair of the House Judiciary Committee sent letters to \u003ca href=\"https://republicans-judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022-11-02-JDJ-to-Garland-re-responsiveness-politicization.pdf\">Attorney General Merrick Garland (PDF) \u003c/a>and FBI Director \u003ca href=\"https://republicans-judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022-11-02-JDJ-to-Wray-re-responsiveness.pdf\">Christopher Wray (PDF)\u003c/a> the week before the election outlining lengthy lists of materials the panel was seeking and directing the agency heads to preserve materials ahead of continuing probes in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans also plan to change House rules that currently allow for proxy voting — a practice Democrats put into place during the coronavirus pandemic. They also pledge to remove the magnetometers that were placed at entrances to the House floor following the January 6 attack on the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Questions about future of Democratic leaders, leftover business\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., 82, has not announced whether she will run to lead the House Democratic Caucus. In 2007, Pelosi became the first woman to be speaker, shattering the so-called marble ceiling in Congress. She took the gavel a second time in 2019, after leading her party back to the majority, but indicated that she would abide by a pledge that helped her secure the votes for speaker to term limit her tenure in leadership. Many newer members have expressed support for paving the way for a new, likely younger Democrat to take the helm of the caucus. The current caucus chair, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is expected to run for the post as minority leader if Pelosi decides to retire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Democrats' strong performance in the midterms has frozen any movement to replace Pelosi. She says some of her colleagues are urging her to run again for the top leadership post, and says the attack on her husband Paul Pelosi roughly 10 days before the election will impact her decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Republicans take control of the chamber, Congress is already preparing for a lame duck session that is expected to stretch into the end of the year. Leaders hope to finalize a bipartisan budget deal to fund government agencies through the rest of the fiscal year and avoid a possible government shutdown. Pelosi also indicated that she would like Congress to raise the debt limit to avoid any contentious debate and threat of default early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic leaders also plan to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/09/21/1124239193/house-legislation-electoral-count-act-reform\">pass legislation \u003c/a>that would clarify how Congress certifies the results of presidential elections with a revamp of the Electoral Count Act, a law first enacted in 1887. Confusion over provisions of the law was exploited by Trump and his allies on January 6, 2021 and lawmakers say the new law is needed to prevent another attack on the Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11932477/republicans-narrowly-retake-control-of-the-house-setting-up-divided-government","authors":["byline_news_11932477"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_30879","news_182","news_1891","news_386"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11932497","label":"news_253"},"news_11871194":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11871194","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11871194","score":null,"sort":[1619470268000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-will-lose-a-house-seat-for-the-first-time","title":"California Will Lose a House Seat for the First Time","publishDate":1619470268,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California, for decades a symbol of boundless growth and opportunity that attracted people from across the country and abroad, has seen its population growth stall and is losing a U.S. House of Representatives seat for the first time in its 170-year history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Census Bureau population data released Monday is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/983082132/census-to-release-1st-results-that-shift-electoral-college-house-seats\">used to determine how the nation’s 435 House seats are allocated\u003c/a>. California remains the most populous state by far with nearly 39.58 million people, but it is growing more slowly than other states and will see its House delegation drop from 53 to 52.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's population grew by about 2.3 million people since the 2010 Census, but has been nearly flat since 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s certainly a remarkable result given the broader history of the state, which has been just almost relentless population growth,” said Eric McGhee, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California who studies political redistricting. “The state has just been booming almost since day one, so to have it be slowing down this much is really historically unprecedented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means influence will shift to faster-growing states such as Arizona, Florida and Texas, where business-friendly policies and lower costs of living have fueled high-octane growth over the past decade. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas gained two seats while Florida added one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas politicians have long sought to woo California residents and businesses. During the pandemic, companies like Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced plans to relocate headquarters to from California to Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be gloating — political gloating — I can guarantee it,” said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a professor of public policy communication at the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's loss of a House seat also means a possible dip in federal funding for Medi-Cal, the health insurance program for low-income people, as well as less money for highways, schools and a wide array of social services that are based on population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of seats in Congress is fixed at 435 and the Census Bureau uses a population-based formula to decide how many seats each state gets. That means if one state loses, another one gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More U.S. residents moving out of California than into the state is just one factor driving California’s slower growth, though demographers say more data is needed to understand who has left and why in recent years. In fact, California has lost more residents to other states than it gained for all but three of the past roughly 30 years, McGhee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those losses typically are offset by international immigration into the state, something that’s slowed in recent years, he said. Births also are declining while deaths are increasing, a phenomenon across the U.S. that’s more pronounced in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='census-2020']In a memo released by the state's finance department shortly after the Census figures were announced, officials pointed to both natural and political developments as reasons why California's overall population growth rate didn't keep pace with the national rate over the last 10 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both California and the nation's fertility rates fell over the last decade, but California's fell at about twice the national rate, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This faster-than-national decline in fertility yielded 350,000 fewer children in California over this 10-year period,\" the memo stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo also pointed to the impact of Trump administration immigration policies on California's net migration numbers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Domestic flows out to other states were more than offset by international migrants,\" the memo stated. \"However, federal immigration policy decisions in the last half of the decade, accompanied and perhaps exacerbated by an officially pronounced federal view of immigration overall, slowed California’s migration-related growth.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, state finance officials called out Trump administration reductions in H-1B visas and asylum applications, noting that asylum applications fell \"from approximately 100,000 in 2016 to approximately 30,000 in 2019,\" and saying California is historically home to 30% of the total national asylum population.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'It Will Be a Blip'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Just because California’s growth has slowed doesn’t mean the state is in decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California tends to go through boom and bust cycles,” said Beth Jarosz, a senior research associate at the Population Reference Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growth in recent years has been historically low. Since the last census, California’s population grew 6.1%, which ranked 24th nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Shrum, director of University of Southern California's Dornsife Center for the Political Future, said he expects the overall impact of the loss of a congressional seat to be marginal, even on federal funding. That’s because California will still have far more seats than any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be a blip,” Shrum said. “It will be talked about by Republicans and (Gov.) Greg Abbott in Texas, but it won’t make any fundamental difference to the fortunes and future of the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the number of congressional seats is known, states can embark on the decennial process of redrawing congressional maps, known as redistricting. That process won’t start until late summer or fall because of a delay in releasing neighborhood-level population data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is among several states that use a commission to draw state legislative and congressional districts. Voters in 2008 created an independent Citizens Redistricting Commission that took the power to draw the lines away from the state Legislature. The group has already begun a months-long process of seeking community feedback and taking other input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has not yet decided if it will try to tweak the maps or start from scratch, said Sara Sadhwani, a member of the commission and assistant professor of politics at Pomona College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means, for now, it’s too soon to know how the lines will change and which incumbent politicians could lose their seats or find themselves fighting with colleagues to stay in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Mitchell, a redistricting consultant who owns Sacramento-based Redistricting Partners, said while losing a House seat isn't great, California actually worked hard to limit its losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The state spent $200 million on working with community-based organizations, and doing phone banking and texting, and, when it was appropriate, doing actual in-person outreach in communities to try to bolster the completion of census forms,\" Mitchell said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We grew more than other states that actually gained congressional districts. Our 2 million population growth is just not the same 7.5% national rate of growth. And that's why we're losing a congressional district. But we're still growing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press's Kathleen Ronayne and KQED's Katie Orr and David Marks.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Following the release of new U.S. census data, California will lose a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in 170 years of statehood.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1619476479,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1150},"headData":{"title":"California Will Lose a House Seat for the First Time | KQED","description":"Following the release of new U.S. census data, California will lose a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in 170 years of statehood.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11871194 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11871194","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/04/26/california-will-lose-a-house-seat-for-the-first-time/","disqusTitle":"California Will Lose a House Seat for the First Time","path":"/news/11871194/california-will-lose-a-house-seat-for-the-first-time","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California, for decades a symbol of boundless growth and opportunity that attracted people from across the country and abroad, has seen its population growth stall and is losing a U.S. House of Representatives seat for the first time in its 170-year history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Census Bureau population data released Monday is \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/983082132/census-to-release-1st-results-that-shift-electoral-college-house-seats\">used to determine how the nation’s 435 House seats are allocated\u003c/a>. California remains the most populous state by far with nearly 39.58 million people, but it is growing more slowly than other states and will see its House delegation drop from 53 to 52.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's population grew by about 2.3 million people since the 2010 Census, but has been nearly flat since 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s certainly a remarkable result given the broader history of the state, which has been just almost relentless population growth,” said Eric McGhee, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California who studies political redistricting. “The state has just been booming almost since day one, so to have it be slowing down this much is really historically unprecedented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means influence will shift to faster-growing states such as Arizona, Florida and Texas, where business-friendly policies and lower costs of living have fueled high-octane growth over the past decade. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas gained two seats while Florida added one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas politicians have long sought to woo California residents and businesses. During the pandemic, companies like Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced plans to relocate headquarters to from California to Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be gloating — political gloating — I can guarantee it,” said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a professor of public policy communication at the University of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's loss of a House seat also means a possible dip in federal funding for Medi-Cal, the health insurance program for low-income people, as well as less money for highways, schools and a wide array of social services that are based on population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of seats in Congress is fixed at 435 and the Census Bureau uses a population-based formula to decide how many seats each state gets. That means if one state loses, another one gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More U.S. residents moving out of California than into the state is just one factor driving California’s slower growth, though demographers say more data is needed to understand who has left and why in recent years. In fact, California has lost more residents to other states than it gained for all but three of the past roughly 30 years, McGhee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those losses typically are offset by international immigration into the state, something that’s slowed in recent years, he said. Births also are declining while deaths are increasing, a phenomenon across the U.S. that’s more pronounced in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"census-2020"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a memo released by the state's finance department shortly after the Census figures were announced, officials pointed to both natural and political developments as reasons why California's overall population growth rate didn't keep pace with the national rate over the last 10 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both California and the nation's fertility rates fell over the last decade, but California's fell at about twice the national rate, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This faster-than-national decline in fertility yielded 350,000 fewer children in California over this 10-year period,\" the memo stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo also pointed to the impact of Trump administration immigration policies on California's net migration numbers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Domestic flows out to other states were more than offset by international migrants,\" the memo stated. \"However, federal immigration policy decisions in the last half of the decade, accompanied and perhaps exacerbated by an officially pronounced federal view of immigration overall, slowed California’s migration-related growth.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, state finance officials called out Trump administration reductions in H-1B visas and asylum applications, noting that asylum applications fell \"from approximately 100,000 in 2016 to approximately 30,000 in 2019,\" and saying California is historically home to 30% of the total national asylum population.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'It Will Be a Blip'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Just because California’s growth has slowed doesn’t mean the state is in decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California tends to go through boom and bust cycles,” said Beth Jarosz, a senior research associate at the Population Reference Bureau.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growth in recent years has been historically low. Since the last census, California’s population grew 6.1%, which ranked 24th nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Shrum, director of University of Southern California's Dornsife Center for the Political Future, said he expects the overall impact of the loss of a congressional seat to be marginal, even on federal funding. That’s because California will still have far more seats than any other state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be a blip,” Shrum said. “It will be talked about by Republicans and (Gov.) Greg Abbott in Texas, but it won’t make any fundamental difference to the fortunes and future of the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the number of congressional seats is known, states can embark on the decennial process of redrawing congressional maps, known as redistricting. That process won’t start until late summer or fall because of a delay in releasing neighborhood-level population data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is among several states that use a commission to draw state legislative and congressional districts. Voters in 2008 created an independent Citizens Redistricting Commission that took the power to draw the lines away from the state Legislature. The group has already begun a months-long process of seeking community feedback and taking other input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has not yet decided if it will try to tweak the maps or start from scratch, said Sara Sadhwani, a member of the commission and assistant professor of politics at Pomona College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means, for now, it’s too soon to know how the lines will change and which incumbent politicians could lose their seats or find themselves fighting with colleagues to stay in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Mitchell, a redistricting consultant who owns Sacramento-based Redistricting Partners, said while losing a House seat isn't great, California actually worked hard to limit its losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The state spent $200 million on working with community-based organizations, and doing phone banking and texting, and, when it was appropriate, doing actual in-person outreach in communities to try to bolster the completion of census forms,\" Mitchell said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We grew more than other states that actually gained congressional districts. Our 2 million population growth is just not the same 7.5% national rate of growth. And that's why we're losing a congressional district. But we're still growing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press's Kathleen Ronayne and KQED's Katie Orr and David Marks.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11871194/california-will-lose-a-house-seat-for-the-first-time","authors":["237"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18538","news_25535","news_182","news_17968","news_27553","news_387"],"featImg":"news_11855888","label":"news"},"news_11862434":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11862434","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11862434","score":null,"sort":[1614443033000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"house-approves-1-9-trillion-covid-19-relief-package-without-minimum-wage-hike","title":"House Approves $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Package Without Minimum Wage Hike","publishDate":1614443033,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>House lawmakers on Friday approved President Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, advancing the legislation to the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote came days after the United States surpassed 500,000 deaths from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal would provide\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/22/970122376/highlights-from-the-house-covid-bill\"> a new round of financial support\u003c/a> for workers, families and businesses, including direct payments of up to $1,400 for eligible individuals and couples, an expansion and extension of supplemental unemployment benefits and an increase to the child tax credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in the bill is $25 billion for emergency rental assistance and an expanded tax credit for low-income workers without children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate will have just over two weeks to make changes to the bill before current federal unemployment benefits expire on March 14. No Republicans in the Senate are expected to support the legislation, having balked at the price tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We already know what is the best stimulus plan out there,\" House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said at a press conference Friday. \"It's to fully reopen our economy. To do that, we need our economy to go back to work, back to school and back to health.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the budget reconciliation process enables Senate Democrats to approve the package without Republican backing, Democrats will need support from all 50 of its members to deliver on the Biden administration's first major legislative priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know some in Congress think we've already done enough to deal with the crisis in the country,\" Biden said when he announced the plan at the White House earlier this month. \"That's not what I see. I see enormous pain in this country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to financial assistance for individuals and families, the bill would also direct relief to businesses. That includes $25 billion to the Small Business Administration for a new grant program that targets bars and restaurants and additional funding for a program that assists shuttered venues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='minimum-wage']The package is also expected to set aside more than $128 billion in grants to help K-12 schools reopen and $39 billion for higher education institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, the bill had included a provision that would gradually increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025. But on Thursday evening, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/25/970637190/senate-cant-vote-on-15-minimum-wage-parliamentarian-rules\">nonpartisan Senate parliamentarian ruled\u003c/a> that including this provision violated budgetary rules. While the ruling disappointed some progressives, the decision spared Democrats in the Senate from internal conflict over whether a $15 minimum wage is too high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden said he was also disappointed, but respected the parliamentarian's decision and urged Congress to quickly pass the relief package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The proposal would provide a new round of financial support for workers, families and businesses, including direct payments of up to $1,400 for eligible individuals and couples, an expansion and extension of supplemental unemployment benefits and an increase to the child tax credit.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1614622287,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":436},"headData":{"title":"House Approves $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Package Without Minimum Wage Hike | KQED","description":"The proposal would provide a new round of financial support for workers, families and businesses, including direct payments of up to $1,400 for eligible individuals and couples, an expansion and extension of supplemental unemployment benefits and an increase to the child tax credit.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11862434 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11862434","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/02/27/house-approves-1-9-trillion-covid-19-relief-package-without-minimum-wage-hike/","disqusTitle":"House Approves $1.9 Trillion COVID-19 Relief Package Without Minimum Wage Hike","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/728257568/chloee-weiner\">Chloee Weiner\u003c/a>","path":"/news/11862434/house-approves-1-9-trillion-covid-19-relief-package-without-minimum-wage-hike","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>House lawmakers on Friday approved President Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, advancing the legislation to the Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote came days after the United States surpassed 500,000 deaths from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal would provide\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/22/970122376/highlights-from-the-house-covid-bill\"> a new round of financial support\u003c/a> for workers, families and businesses, including direct payments of up to $1,400 for eligible individuals and couples, an expansion and extension of supplemental unemployment benefits and an increase to the child tax credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in the bill is $25 billion for emergency rental assistance and an expanded tax credit for low-income workers without children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Senate will have just over two weeks to make changes to the bill before current federal unemployment benefits expire on March 14. No Republicans in the Senate are expected to support the legislation, having balked at the price tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We already know what is the best stimulus plan out there,\" House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said at a press conference Friday. \"It's to fully reopen our economy. To do that, we need our economy to go back to work, back to school and back to health.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the budget reconciliation process enables Senate Democrats to approve the package without Republican backing, Democrats will need support from all 50 of its members to deliver on the Biden administration's first major legislative priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know some in Congress think we've already done enough to deal with the crisis in the country,\" Biden said when he announced the plan at the White House earlier this month. \"That's not what I see. I see enormous pain in this country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to financial assistance for individuals and families, the bill would also direct relief to businesses. That includes $25 billion to the Small Business Administration for a new grant program that targets bars and restaurants and additional funding for a program that assists shuttered venues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"minimum-wage"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The package is also expected to set aside more than $128 billion in grants to help K-12 schools reopen and $39 billion for higher education institutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, the bill had included a provision that would gradually increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025. But on Thursday evening, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/02/25/970637190/senate-cant-vote-on-15-minimum-wage-parliamentarian-rules\">nonpartisan Senate parliamentarian ruled\u003c/a> that including this provision violated budgetary rules. While the ruling disappointed some progressives, the decision spared Democrats in the Senate from internal conflict over whether a $15 minimum wage is too high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden said he was also disappointed, but respected the parliamentarian's decision and urged Congress to quickly pass the relief package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11862434/house-approves-1-9-trillion-covid-19-relief-package-without-minimum-wage-hike","authors":["byline_news_11862434"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_20149","news_27350","news_29209","news_29208","news_182","news_17968","news_397"],"featImg":"news_11862440","label":"source_news_11862434"},"news_11715914":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11715914","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11715914","score":null,"sort":[1546637553000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-it-looks-like-to-have-a-record-number-of-women-in-the-house-of-representatives","title":"What It Looks Like to Have a Record Number of Women in the House of Representatives","publishDate":1546637553,"format":"aside","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp data-pym-loader data-child-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-photos-20181217/\" id=\"responsive-embed-new-congress-women-new-photos-20181217\"> Loading... \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cscript src=\"https://pym.nprapps.org/npr-pym-loader.v2.min.js\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-photos-20181217?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don't see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One hundred twenty-seven. That's how many women will be in Congress this year, up from 110 in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/women-us-congress-2018\">the previous Congress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a jump that's simultaneously so big and so small. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, there are 15 percent more women in this Congress than there were last session. There are now a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/resources/results_release_5bletterhead5d_1.pdf\">record number\u003c/a> of women of color in the House. There are also a slew of firsts: Congress will get its first Native American women, Muslim women and youngest female member ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, this year's record-setting number of women will bring the share of women Congress members up from 20.6 percent ... to 23.7 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overwhelmingly, these women are in the House. While the number of Senate women will increase by two, the number of House women will grow by 15 compared with those elected in the last Congress. Here's a series of charts to help you understand exactly how big a deal that change in the House is and what it might mean for how the new Congress does its job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Almost entirely Democratic women\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A defining feature of the record-setting wave of women coming into Congress is that it is nearly entirely Democratic. While there are 35 Democratic women freshmen in the House, there will be only one on the Republican side: Carol Miller of West Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altogether, the number of Democratic women in the House \u003ca href=\"http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/resources/results_release_5bletterhead5d_1.pdf\">will increase\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/women-us-congress-2018\">25 this year\u003c/a>, while the number of Republican women will decline by 10. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two (interrelated) things happened in 2018: Voters elected a blue wave, and that blue wave had a lot of women in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-pym-loader data-child-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-sankey-20181217/\" id=\"responsive-embed-new-congress-women-new-sankey-20181217\"> Loading... \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cscript src=\"https://pym.nprapps.org/npr-pym-loader.v2.min.js\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-sankey-20181217?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don't see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in January 2017, it was abundantly clear that Democratic women were furious that Donald Trump had been elected president. That helped push a record number of Democratic women to run for office. That led to a record number of Democratic women nominees and ultimately a record-setting freshman class of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 30 percent of Republican men who left their seats (either through retirement, resignation or defeat) have been replaced by Democratic women. And almost half of Republican women who have departed were replaced by Democratic women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-10767090501_slide-5c239116449ceffa00cedc09ce90008f92928472-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi swears in members on Thursday at the Capitol, including a record number of women in the House of Representatives.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11715916\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi swears in members on Thursday at the Capitol, including a record number of women in the House of Representatives. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So now, as the new Congress starts, there are only 13 Republican women in this House, down from 23 last session. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/03/681027434/the-new-congress-has-a-record-number-of-women-but-very-few-republican-women\">a lot of reasons for this\u003c/a>. There are relatively few Republican women in state legislatures, for example, and a lower share of women are Republicans than Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's also a sense within the party that they may need to adopt different policies. Former Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, expounded upon the need for more contraceptive availability as an example at a December panel hosted by \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean seriously, I am pro-life. I'm unapologetically pro-life. Why not give women the option of having their choices when it comes to health care before they have to choose between keeping a life and ending a life?\" she said. \"And the fact that I've got more issues with Republican men on this is absolutely absurd to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from that, when it comes to promoting female candidates, Republicans lack a massive outside spending machine like Democrats have in Emily's List. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the Republicans' House fundraising arm, the National Republican Congressional Committee, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollcall.com/news/%20politics/elise-stefanik-wants-to-play-in-primaries-to-help-republican-women\">doesn't participate in primaries\u003c/a>, as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee does. Some in the GOP, like New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, believe that boosting women in primaries is essential to ultimately boost GOP women's congressional numbers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why, in December, Stefanik said she was stepping down from her recruitment post at the NRCC — to focus on using her own leadership PAC to help women in her party win. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More bipartisan? Not necessarily\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a conventional wisdom in Washington that women are more bipartisan than men — that once they're in Congress, they will be more willing to make compromise legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's anecdotal evidence of this. Women were instrumental in ending the 2013 shutdown. Women like Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski have a reputation for being open to crossing party lines on key votes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a particularly seductive idea at a time when partisan rancor in Washington seems to regularly hit ever-new highs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not necessarily true, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/10/636258585/electing-more-women-would-change-congress-but-not-make-it-more-bipartisan\">according to recent research\u003c/a> (and as NPR reported last summer). A late 2018 study found that while women on the Hill are more sociable, in the sense that they participate more in interparty congressional events like Secret Santas, those lawmakers remain first and foremost partisan when it comes to their votes, amendments and even official travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across those measures, there are virtually no gaps between women and men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Step back from the data, and this conclusion looks pretty logical. After all, the number of women in Congress has been increasing slowly over the past couple of decades, a time when polarization has also increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-pym-loader data-child-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-chambers-20181217/\" id=\"responsive-embed-new-congress-women-new-chambers-20181217\"> Loading... \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cscript src=\"https://pym.nprapps.org/npr-pym-loader.v2.min.js\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-chambers-20181217?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don't see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, research has shown that women do legislate differently than men do. There is evidence that women and men \u003ca href=\"https://my.vanderbilt.edu/alanwiseman/files/2016/03/VWW_Issues_201603.pdf\">introduce bills in different issue areas\u003c/a> — women more often in education, health, and civil rights and liberties; men more often in agriculture and energy. (That same study also found that those bills in \"women's issues\" areas tend to pass less often than other bills, particularly when sponsored by women.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, women in the minority party have been shown to keep their bills alive longer than men in the minority do. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which is to say that the bills on Congress' docket next year may well look different than usual. As for lawmakers' willingness to compromise on those bills? Don't count on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-pym-loader data-child-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-table-20181219/\" id=\"responsive-embed-new-congress-women-new-table-20181219\"> Loading... \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cscript src=\"https://pym.nprapps.org/npr-pym-loader.v2.min.js\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-table-20181219?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don't see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=What+It+Looks+Like+To+Have+A+Record+Number+Of+Women+In+The+House+Of+Representatives&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The 116th Congress has 127 female members — 102 of them in the House. That's far more than the previous record, but it also is far from gender parity.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1546638330,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1036},"headData":{"title":"What It Looks Like to Have a Record Number of Women in the House of Representatives | KQED","description":"The 116th Congress has 127 female members — 102 of them in the House. That's far more than the previous record, but it also is far from gender parity.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11715914 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11715914","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/01/04/what-it-looks-like-to-have-a-record-number-of-women-in-the-house-of-representatives/","disqusTitle":"What It Looks Like to Have a Record Number of Women in the House of Representatives","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Sean McMinn","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Danielle Kurtzleben,\u003cbr> Sean McMinn, \u003cbr>Renee Klahr\u003c/strong>","nprImageAgency":"NPR","nprStoryId":"678227272","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=678227272&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/04/678227272/what-it-looks-like-to-have-a-record-number-of-women-in-the-house-of-representati?ft=nprml&f=678227272","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Fri, 04 Jan 2019 14:00:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Fri, 04 Jan 2019 05:01:08 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Fri, 04 Jan 2019 14:00:34 -0500","path":"/news/11715914/what-it-looks-like-to-have-a-record-number-of-women-in-the-house-of-representatives","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp data-pym-loader data-child-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-photos-20181217/\" id=\"responsive-embed-new-congress-women-new-photos-20181217\"> Loading... \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cscript src=\"https://pym.nprapps.org/npr-pym-loader.v2.min.js\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-photos-20181217?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don't see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One hundred twenty-seven. That's how many women will be in Congress this year, up from 110 in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/women-us-congress-2018\">the previous Congress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a jump that's simultaneously so big and so small. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, there are 15 percent more women in this Congress than there were last session. There are now a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/resources/results_release_5bletterhead5d_1.pdf\">record number\u003c/a> of women of color in the House. There are also a slew of firsts: Congress will get its first Native American women, Muslim women and youngest female member ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, this year's record-setting number of women will bring the share of women Congress members up from 20.6 percent ... to 23.7 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overwhelmingly, these women are in the House. While the number of Senate women will increase by two, the number of House women will grow by 15 compared with those elected in the last Congress. Here's a series of charts to help you understand exactly how big a deal that change in the House is and what it might mean for how the new Congress does its job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Almost entirely Democratic women\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A defining feature of the record-setting wave of women coming into Congress is that it is nearly entirely Democratic. While there are 35 Democratic women freshmen in the House, there will be only one on the Republican side: Carol Miller of West Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altogether, the number of Democratic women in the House \u003ca href=\"http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/resources/results_release_5bletterhead5d_1.pdf\">will increase\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/women-us-congress-2018\">25 this year\u003c/a>, while the number of Republican women will decline by 10. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two (interrelated) things happened in 2018: Voters elected a blue wave, and that blue wave had a lot of women in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-pym-loader data-child-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-sankey-20181217/\" id=\"responsive-embed-new-congress-women-new-sankey-20181217\"> Loading... \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cscript src=\"https://pym.nprapps.org/npr-pym-loader.v2.min.js\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-sankey-20181217?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don't see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in January 2017, it was abundantly clear that Democratic women were furious that Donald Trump had been elected president. That helped push a record number of Democratic women to run for office. That led to a record number of Democratic women nominees and ultimately a record-setting freshman class of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 30 percent of Republican men who left their seats (either through retirement, resignation or defeat) have been replaced by Democratic women. And almost half of Republican women who have departed were replaced by Democratic women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11715916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/gettyimages-10767090501_slide-5c239116449ceffa00cedc09ce90008f92928472-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi swears in members on Thursday at the Capitol, including a record number of women in the House of Representatives.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11715916\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi swears in members on Thursday at the Capitol, including a record number of women in the House of Representatives. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So now, as the new Congress starts, there are only 13 Republican women in this House, down from 23 last session. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/01/03/681027434/the-new-congress-has-a-record-number-of-women-but-very-few-republican-women\">a lot of reasons for this\u003c/a>. There are relatively few Republican women in state legislatures, for example, and a lower share of women are Republicans than Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's also a sense within the party that they may need to adopt different policies. Former Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, expounded upon the need for more contraceptive availability as an example at a December panel hosted by \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean seriously, I am pro-life. I'm unapologetically pro-life. Why not give women the option of having their choices when it comes to health care before they have to choose between keeping a life and ending a life?\" she said. \"And the fact that I've got more issues with Republican men on this is absolutely absurd to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from that, when it comes to promoting female candidates, Republicans lack a massive outside spending machine like Democrats have in Emily's List. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the Republicans' House fundraising arm, the National Republican Congressional Committee, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollcall.com/news/%20politics/elise-stefanik-wants-to-play-in-primaries-to-help-republican-women\">doesn't participate in primaries\u003c/a>, as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee does. Some in the GOP, like New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, believe that boosting women in primaries is essential to ultimately boost GOP women's congressional numbers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why, in December, Stefanik said she was stepping down from her recruitment post at the NRCC — to focus on using her own leadership PAC to help women in her party win. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More bipartisan? Not necessarily\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a conventional wisdom in Washington that women are more bipartisan than men — that once they're in Congress, they will be more willing to make compromise legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's anecdotal evidence of this. Women were instrumental in ending the 2013 shutdown. Women like Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski have a reputation for being open to crossing party lines on key votes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a particularly seductive idea at a time when partisan rancor in Washington seems to regularly hit ever-new highs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not necessarily true, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/10/636258585/electing-more-women-would-change-congress-but-not-make-it-more-bipartisan\">according to recent research\u003c/a> (and as NPR reported last summer). A late 2018 study found that while women on the Hill are more sociable, in the sense that they participate more in interparty congressional events like Secret Santas, those lawmakers remain first and foremost partisan when it comes to their votes, amendments and even official travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across those measures, there are virtually no gaps between women and men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Step back from the data, and this conclusion looks pretty logical. After all, the number of women in Congress has been increasing slowly over the past couple of decades, a time when polarization has also increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp data-pym-loader data-child-src=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-chambers-20181217/\" id=\"responsive-embed-new-congress-women-new-chambers-20181217\"> Loading... \u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cscript src=\"https://pym.nprapps.org/npr-pym-loader.v2.min.js\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/dailygraphics/graphics/new-congress-women-new-chambers-20181217?mode=childlink&utm_source=nprnews&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=storyredirect\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Don't see the graphic above? Click here.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, research has shown that women do legislate differently than men do. There is evidence that women and men \u003ca href=\"https://my.vanderbilt.edu/alanwiseman/files/2016/03/VWW_Issues_201603.pdf\">introduce bills in different issue areas\u003c/a> — women more often in education, health, and civil rights and liberties; men more often in agriculture and energy. (That same study also found that those bills in \"women's issues\" areas tend to pass less often than other bills, particularly when sponsored by women.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, women in the minority party have been shown to keep their bills alive longer than men in the minority do. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of which is to say that the bills on Congress' docket next year may well look different than usual. As for lawmakers' willingness to compromise on those bills? 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With striking losses in Orange County and the Central Valley, the Republican Party's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11704247/these-7-california-congressional-races-could-determine-which-party-controls-the-house\">diminished congressional delegation\u003c/a> will now represent a less diverse and less well-off subset of Californians and an electorate that was most enamored with the president. It will also be a much smaller portion of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, 26 percent of Californians are represented in Congress by a Republican. Next year, that number will fall to 13 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to the election, the average Californian living in a Republican-held district earned $65,634 per year. That’s slightly above the state average of $63,783. 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Only Trump country remains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This could make it all the more difficult for Republicans who want to rebuild the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the GOP's broader electoral viability in California may depend on its willingness to disassociate itself from the politics of the president, the remaining Republican members of Congress — representing the most fiercely Trumpian corners of the state — may have little incentive to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://CALmatters.org\">CALmatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The midterm election whittled away all the purple sections of the state now represented by the GOP, leaving only the scarlet-red core.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1543453129,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":440},"headData":{"title":"Whiter, Poorer, Trumpier: the New Republican California | KQED","description":"The midterm election whittled away all the purple sections of the state now represented by the GOP, leaving only the scarlet-red core.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11708731 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11708731","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/11/28/whiter-poorer-trumpier-the-new-republican-california/","disqusTitle":"Whiter, Poorer, Trumpier: the New Republican California","source":"CALmatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/author/ben-christopher/\">Ben Christopher\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11708731/whiter-poorer-trumpier-the-new-republican-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After the shellacking that California Republicans took in this year's midterm elections, many figures within the more pragmatic wings of the party establishment had \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/commentary/my-turn-california-republicans-missed-the-future/\">hoped\u003c/a> that the party would turn away from the divisive politics of President Trump and seek to become a more diverse coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the short term, the midterm election whittled away all the purple sections of the state now represented by the GOP, leaving only the scarlet-red core. 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