For this week and our assignment to contact our respective Senators and Representatives I chose to draw a political cartoon pertaining to it. When I emailed my Senators and Representative I got only as a response and email saying how busy they were and how they were glad that I had contacted them in order to express my opinion and concerns. Only one Senator, Tim Scott, sent me an email detailing and answering the email that I sent him. Whether it was actually him or an aide I do not know. As a result this influenced my political cartoon. On the left side of the drawing I drew a citizen typing an email to his congressman and using the right he has to contact him. On the right side, you have the congressman and his aide. The aide receives the email that was sent to the congressman and tells him that he has received an email about a particular bill. The congressman in turn, with a mug in his hand, waves back and tells the aide to send one of those emails that say “I appreciate your input and opinion” and that “I’ll get back at you as soon as I can.” It can be disheartening to send an email to a representative or senator and for them not to respond back with a detailed answer. Like I said, the only person that responded back was Senator Tim Scott.  Senator Lindsey Graham and Representative Jeff Duncan only sent back and email saying that they were currently really busy and would provide an answer as soon as they can, and that they valued my input. The type of legislation that I wanted them to look at had to do with immigration. One bill was about providing legal status undocumented individuals that received an award for being in active combat. The other bill had to do with undocumented parents not be deported because they would be torn away from their kids; these kids are American citizens and it the bill sees that it is not in the child’s best interest for this to occur. The final bill that I emailed about what was a bill in the Senate that sets up a plan for undocumented immigrants to gain legal status as long as they followed certain rules. What I learned from this exercise is that we do have an opportunity to talk to officials that represent us in the federal government. If we feel like there is some issue that we think needs some action than we should try to contact our representatives and senators. This is how our form of government was set up  for.