Getting to Know Your Legislators
We urge all voters, in particular the youth in our communities to become familiar with those who represent us at the local, State and Federal level. These are the people who’s positions, values, decisions and votes have real consequences in our daily lives.
Let’s make sure our representatives remember that they are public servants and sent to our City and County offices or Sacramento or Washington, to serve our needs and interests.
Find your California State Legislators HERE. You can look up your your State Senate and Assembly Districts as well as your representatives and their contact information.
Look up California’s U.S. Representatives HERE, for both the Senate and Congress, along with their contact information and their voting record to learn if they actually do represent YOU.
Legislations to Track
Our legislative system relies on a set of checks and balances but as we all know, the game is rigged. Laws are frequently written by lobbyists and corporate legal teams and rubber stamped by lawmakers who depend heavily on campaign donations from the very same corporations and industries they are charged to regulate and keep in check.
We The People, need to watch carefully carefully behind the closed doors of the legislative process to defend the system of checks and balances. Below are some useful links and tools to track legislation. Also keep checking our Facebook page as we post petitions and bills to watch and contact your representatives about.
- California Legislative Information is our resource to find any CA Assembly or Senate Bill going through the legislative process.
- GovTrack.us allows you to track a bill and get status alerts
- Countable.us is an app that provides bill summaries and lets you take action
- House.gov walks you through the federal legislative process