U.S. House Members Share Letters On Facebook
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are taking to Facebook to make their communications with President Obama, colleagues and regulatory agencies more transparent.
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are taking to Facebook to make their communications with President Barack Obama, colleagues and regulatory agencies more transparent.
For example, late last month the President decided to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which prompted a letter signed by several House Republicans including Representative Pete Olson (R-TX) — who posted the correspondence on his Facebook page.
Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), vice chair of the House Republican Conference, posted a letter signed by several of her colleagues to Senators John Rockefeller (D-WV) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), expressing concern over the nomination of James Bryson as the new Secretary of the Commerce Department.
Remember when President Obama used the autopen to sign key provisions of the Patriot Act while he was in Europe? Rep.
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