Sentences with phrase «congressional switchboards»

So as fossil fuel companies and their government friends were taking to the air to read straight from the fear - and - misinformation playbook, Climate Reality activists and friends were getting busy too, deluging Congressional switchboards with calls supporting the plan and spreading the word through local media and their social networks.

In Democratic and swing states and districts, Obamacare supporters dramatically outnumbered people calling for tis repeal, shutting down Congressional switchboards and filling up voicemail boxes.

Which isn't to say that the millions of teachers and parents who flooded social media and the Congressional switchboard to urge her rejection had nothing to worry about.

People marched, showed up at town hall meetings across America, flooded the Congressional switchboard with calls, organized online, stood up for access to health care.

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Also, President Obama gave a shout - out to citizen activists in his announcement of the deal last night, both of the digital and analog varieties, who'd flooded Twitter at his requrest and crashed Congressional websites and the House switchboard this week:

During the Congressional vote for Waxman / Markey the Capital switchboards were logging calls 50 - 1 against Cap’n Trade.