Congressional Web Site Slammed By E-Mails

(CNET)  The Web site for the House of Representatives has been overwhelmed this week by a deluge of visitors trying to e-mail their congressmen and download the financial bailout bill the House rejected Monday.

The site on Monday saw three to four times its normal traffic, according to Jeff Ventura, a spokesman for the House chief administrative officer. The traffic has slowed down the site and made it inaccessible to some, a problem that continued into Tuesday morning.

"It's extraordinary -- the highest level of Web traffic we've seen," Ventura said Tuesday. "This doesn't even compare to the release of the 9-11 Commission Report."

After the financial bailout bill was defeated in the House Monday, the number of people trying to download the bill diminished, he said, but the number of people using the House's standard e-mail form to contact congressmen continues to rise.

"We received millions of e-mails last night," Ventura said. "It was pretty staggering."

The House has implemented measures to limit the amount of e-mails flowing through to congressmen during high-traffic periods. If a person tries to e-mail his representative during one of those periods, he may receive a mechanized response indicating the system is overwhelmed and to try later. Ventura said the problem could last through the week.

"We had people working on it all night, and we still do," he said.

By Declan McCullagh

[indianaman13]

What did the Taxpayers get after bailing out the banks after Reagan deregulated the banks which led to the Savings and Loan scandal?That cost the Taxpayers 160 billion at the time(Google Reagan administration scandals) Did we get better schools? Less taxes? better health care? Less inflation? Less corrupt Politicians? What will happen this time? when will those responsible be held accountable? If I ran my business like these executives, would i get money from the Government?

[funkotronic]

When the crash comes, first we''ll eat the rich.

[tx2democrats]

VOTE NO, let the market fix itself.
we should not BAILOUT or RESCUE the
these markets, the CEO''s need to pay for
their mistakes.

[dksn]

My response is VOTE NO!!!


Please contact your representatives to vote NO!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Also join Facebook''s 700,000,000,000 strong against the 700 billion bailout.
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http://schumer.senate.gov/SchumerWebsite/contact/webform.cfm
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http://clinton.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm?subj=issue
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I am expressing I''m unhappy with the idea of a bailout. I feel if passed Americans will pay yet again for others greed and poor choices. I vote no.

[rmonroe401]

cbscrash072,

What alternate universe are you living in? It sounds like a fun place, can I live there too? That way I could act like all the problems I am facing due to the last 8 years of bs never happened and I could just live in a state of denial the rest of my life.

[hologram5]

Well then, GET A CLUE!! We, the taxpayers do NOT want this bailout plan to go through. They made their bed, let them lie in it.

[bob4usa]

If congress really wants to solve the financial crisis they need to do Ten things:

1. Restore the Glass-Steagall Act.
This act separated investment and commercial banking activities, which prohibited comingling of funds between banks, Wall-Street Stocks and Commodities.

2. Eliminate Derivatives.

3. Eliminate Hedge Funds.

4. Restore bank regulations or make new bank regulations.

5. Restore Wall-Street regulations and make new regulations for Wall-Street.

6. Eliminate Supply%u2013Side Economics or Trickle Down Economics.

7. Adopt and use Nash Equilibrium Economics.

8. Eliminate Free Trade.

9. Restore and create Fair Trade.

10. DO NOT Give Wall-Street and Banks 700 Billion dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[liberate40]

CBS News should also put up a photo of the White House with a backdrop of stormy skies. It is symbolic of the last 8 years and I hope it marks a permanent end to the bumbling Bush years.

[joelewiz75]

Wolf, wolf, Peter cried wolf and no one believed him much to his demay. That demay may be ours too this time. The incompetence of this Republican Adminsitration and the extrodary derilict Republican governace is an excepted, widely acknowledged fact... Blame, denials don''t add up to a solution to very real frozen credit market or to a very real threat of a seized economics.
Remember the votes and remember to vote as this country simply can''t afford to repeat another Republican Mistake.

[aaabee-2009]

Bet the lobbyists can still get through...