“fifteen members of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee wrote a letter to Jeff Bezos, founder and president of Amazon.”
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Bezos to his secretary: “Guffaw! Put in the trash along with all the other strongly worded letters”.
My father was a federal employee. He said that early in career, he had to deal with congressional correspondence.
The rule was to file it, unless it came from a committee chairman, which got forwarded up the ladder.
Budget appropriations, dontcha’ know.