Help Make the Current Federal Adoption Credit Permanent by Writing to your Representative

Here is how:

1. To find the name, phone number and Washington, D.C. mailing address of your Representative and Senators, go to http://www.congress.org/ and enter your zip code in the "Get Involved" box. To find e-mail addresses, click through to the Senator’s or Congressperson’s Web site or do a Google search with their name and the word "e-mail."

2. Log on to http://thomas.loc.gov/ to find out whether your legislators are already co-sponsors of the legislation. On the thomas.loc.gov opening page, under “Search Bill Summary and Status,” search by bill number for H.R. 213 (house of reprsentatives) and S.2816 (senate). Then click on “Bill summary and Status.” On the page that comes up, click on “Cosponsors.”

3. If your legislators have not signed on as co-sponsors of the bill, send them your request that they do so or, at least, vote in favor of the bill. To help you get started, pull some of the language from our sample section.