Below are some excellent resources to better understand government and government affairs:
Stateline.org
The National Journal Hotline
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Congressional Quarterly's 'Congress 101'
Political Voices of Women Community
Federal Rural Economic Development Programs
From the Art of Politics blog:
A timely, genuine and specific thank you letter should follow any meeting you have with an elected official. Write the letter to the elected official, but send it to the staffer who attended the meeting. If you met with them in DC, send the letter to the district office, because everything going to Capitol Hill still gets irradiated and arrives late, crunchy and brown. If you really must send it to DC, turn it into a pdf and e-mail it.
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