I talked with Congressman Starks office today (My district) to discuss what the possibilities are for them to attend a cypherpunks meeting to hear our concerns, and to find out whats possible and the procedures to get them to attend. We would want congresspersons for each of the districts to attend, and people from each district should write them a letter, and include the possible future dates of the Cypherpunks meetings you would want them to attend. Please allow for about 6 weeks for them to schedule in to attend the meetings, as they have lots of other meetings to attend as we all know. After talking to Ron Dellums and Starks office, their procedures are pretty much standardized, and we should have no problem in getting them to attend of we follow their prescribed procedures. They are MOST INTERESTED in hearing our input on this controversial matter, so lets all get together and compose up this letter, and get them off to our local representitives. Before mailing the letter, one should call the local office, and obtain the name of the person who schedules their public appearances to attend such meetings. Once this name is obtained, include it in the letter, Attention Annie Zaitlan (Starks office). We have to do this for every local representitives office in the Bay area. JD