While We're At It, New Report Says Congress Uses Social Media "Extensively"

Now, it's clear that that does not necessarily make for better communications from them to the constituents, but they can have us at their fingertips if they wanted to (or were otherwise compelled to listen to us - read some of the article about how calls to Congress last night regarding the debt ceiling crashed their servers).

You can read the report, #SocialCongress: Perceptions and Use of Social Media on Capitol Hill, and more about it here.

It's just a matter of political will and mindset.