Home How It Works For Newbies Terms & Conditions Today's Featured Special Issue Tag #s1686 Pass the Justice Act More Special Tags General Issue Tags #abortion #adoption #afghanistan #agriculture #appointment #art #bailout #bank #budget #business #children #consumer #corporation #crime #defense #disability #drug #economy #education #efca #election #employment #energy #environment #ethics #farm #fcc #fema #finance #foreign #gas #gay #government #gun #health, hcr #hiv #housing #icc #interior #internet #immigration #impeach #iran #iraq #israel #judge #justice #labor #marriage #medicare #mortgage #nasa #native #oil #palestinian #pension #privacy #publicoption #religion, #religious #retirement #rights #sba #science #singlepayer #solar #ssa #student #tax #telecom #torture #trade #transportation #unemployment #union #veteran #vote, #voting #war #welfare #wiretap #women You can capitalize any part of these words to taste. Where the singular is given above, the plural will match as well. 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You must become and remain a follower of cxs to use the system. 2) To send a message to all your members of Congress, send a reply to @cxs from your regular twitter update box, or anything that feeds into that function. 3) For ultimate delivery the reply must include in its text a routing tag, usually an issue tag starting with a number sign like #health, or it could be a preassigned special issue tag like #p963. A list of all standardized issue tags can be seen in the left column. 4) When a reply comes in, we first check to see if you are a follower of cxs. If NOT you'll get a simple reply from a different Twitter username (outgoing_ONLY) asking you to follow cxs at http://twitter.com/cxs. After you become a follower of cxs the process picks up again a couple minutes later at the next step. 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