re: Your experiences contacting your congressmen/congresswomen?

About 10 years ago or so I wrote a letter to Paul Ryan. His letter back said to call his scheduling assistant if I was interested in speaking with him. I didn't believe it, but I reached out to the assistant and she scheduled a time for me to talk to him. He called me promptly at the scheduled time and we spoke for 30 minutes. Definitely an unbelievable experience but I was pretty impressed.