If your reps are unhinged cretins, you may have a side quest to complete before you contact them with your concerns.

For most, normal, human, representatives - They have staffers answer the phones and tally the calls they get pro-and-anti whatever-the-thing-is and enough calls can get them to act. Again, this presumes your representative isn’t a Qanon-huffing, freedumb cockus member who’s out firing guns at fleeing strippers.

Emails aren’t very effective, some still have faxes, but phone is the heaviest hammer available. Failing any response at all the local office for your rep/sen is the place to show up and politely inquire as to whiskey tango actual foxtrot.

It’s not the bureaucracy from the movie Brazil , they’re often regular people dealing with batshit nazis, wild-eyed tankies and everything in between as best they can. If you haven’t seen it in person, it’s pretty interesting.