"We Control Congress " Our Mission Statement and Operations Plan

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Our Mission and Operations Plan:

WeControlCongress ... It's not just an app, it's a movement!

What is the envisioned mission of this web-based application "We Control Congress"?

IMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS SITE and ALL PROCESS ACTIONS are ONLY for the citizens in the USA and its' territories (all others will be restricted)

A quick, straight-forward process:

  1. Set your Citizen-Member key parameters (use the Quick Register on the main page upper-right) by indicating State, District, ZipCode (this becomes your Citizen-Member Key (a district group value)). Nothing else will show, or be shared. Now, ADD your confirmable USER settings and use the activation email to get started. Yes, we make use of Citizen-Member cookies.
  2. Select a specific piece of active congressional legislation of interest [actually, as many as you want] and within the site we call them C-CLAP's 'Citizens Congressional Legislative Action Position' prompt (Get more familiar with the site thru the How-to WCC Tutorial).
    • Note: On the C-CLAP page you can search/view by our Notable Nine, by alpha sort groups or bill code (as HR### for House legislation or S### for Senate bills), by your District Representative/Senators, or by high voulme in your district, state or the nation.

    3. Now comes our power in action
    OUR COLLECTIVE QUANTIFIABLE POWER!!!
    YOU MUST BE REGISTERED FOR THIS FEATURE
  3. Set a YES or NO (YAY or NAY) position prompt for how you'd like your elected representatives (House member and 2 Senators) to vote on the legislation when in committee or on the floor.
    You can only prompt once per bill, non-changable.
    4. CRITICAL PROCESS POINT:
  4. To COMPLETE THIS TRANSACTION, wherein WCCUSA aggregates, that is counts all position prompts (aggreement or dissent), by District (hence your above Citizen-Member Key), state and nationally on the specific legislative bill, WCCUSA requires $1.00** to process as follows [CLICK to read the full WCC mission statement and operations plan]:
    5. Process as many bills as you want. Focus on the interests important to you. How can we not maintain a healthier society by the numbers?


How the site works currently?
    The Hierarchy Determinate!
    It is a direct function of the site, that you simply CLICK a YES or NO vote on any issue, ideally after gaining some understanding by reading
    either the summary, the text (on govtrack.us) and or an available Citizen's Summary. However ...
  1. We can all agree that not all bills are of equal importance. Renaming a Post Office, while pleasant for a community does not compare to:
    • A Trade agreement.
    • An education, jobs or infrastructure bill
    • A potential for bombing, droning or war.
    • A position on the budget, earmarks, a confirmation.
    2. How then should our reps determine what is important, or more important to you/us?
  2. Our position on expressing how "We the People" are putting "Skin in the Game" is represented by the cost of postage. This represents an effort of minimal but deliberate action and small cost ($1.00*) which, for a jobs bill by example, is an important and worthy investment by us, indivdually and as a total.
  3. In effect, "Aggregate Metrics Matter". When we, the managing masses, act together we can guide our elected representatives to our benefit over money which seeks to manipulate them without a counter-balance (in many instances the money for most reps is for marketing to tell us how they will or did voted (serving the donor interests or not) so we re-elect them, or specifically for re-election consultants). Now this tool can tell can serve as a more direct measure.
  4. With this site/tool we are managing on a direct level
    • Is your rep registered, and therefore listening
    • Dealing with the necessary volume
        • WCCUSA team handles the tally and informing of the district level, state and national metrics to the congress and leadership
      1. Elected Officials have a secure authentication and non-public module for view the metrics from all citizen vote prompts
      2. WCCUSA publishes to the DC and district offices of all elected representatives (one House per district and two (2) Federal Senators) on the top metrics per bi-monthly mailing cycle
In support of the populous effort to take back control of our congress?
Areas of action assistance
Membership, our accoutablity and stewardship of resources
Time is on our side, but we have to stay vigilant.
A point on environmental impacts:

A tool such as this, wherein the major focus is a request generated and tracked thru the US postal services can certainly open the question of "the killing of trees, especially in the techno-screen based age of electronic data." Is this an acceptable give and take? For the purpose, I will assert yes.

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