Act On Principles has created new tools to make sure you can find out where your Senators and Representatives stand on ALL of the LGBT legislation as designated by the Equality Caucus.  We are currently in the process to ensure all 535 voting members of Congress receive a survey directly from Act On Principles.  However, we need your help to ensure that the various offices in the House and Senate complete the survey, and provide the information that we need.

Public Whip Count Tools:

• Survey for US House of Representatives
• Survey for US Senate
• Online Survey for Congressional Offices

Instructions for Contacting Congress

1.  Contact the Congressional offices that you want to get information from.   Call the District or Washington office using information from www.house.gov or www.senate.gov.   Let them know that you are sending them a survey on LGBT legislation.

2.  Provide the appropriate survey for the office that you are contacting.  Use the US House of Representatives survey for Representatives.  Use the US Senate Survey for Senators.

4.  Ask the staffer or Member “Hi, I would like to know if you can fill out a survey on where you stand on all pieces of LGBT specific legislation as designated by the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus.  I am asking that you provide the position based on the accepted whip count terminology.”

5. Collect survey(s) from the Congressional office(s) you have contacted.  You might have to do follow-up calls and emails.

6.  Share the information that you collected with Act On Principles in one of the following three ways:  a.) Enter information into appropriate Public Whip Count for Act on Principles at www.actonprinciples.org.  B.) Email or scan responses to [email protected].  c.) Fax to 305-723-0299.

Your encouragement and persistence to get your Representatives to fill out the survey will be helpful in gathering information for our Public Whip Count.  Act On Principles will be creating special webpage to list all of the members who have completed the survey as requested.  If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact us.