Are You Regularly Communicating with Your House Rep?
If not, you should be. A simple email telling him or her what you want done, with a brief explanation of why is all it takes. Send your rep something every week or two, as a reminder that you are following the news and paying attention to your rep's response and actions.
Is your Representative a Republican? Send your emails anyhow, but start working now to help the Democrat running for that seat as much as you can.
It is wrong of us to expect our House members (and Senators) to guess what we want them to do. We need to tell them. Write your messages carefully. Have someone proofread them, and then send them on a regular basis.
If you're not doing that, don't expect your elected representatives to guess what you want correctly. Your representative probably won't read or reply to your message, but it will get tallied and what's coming in will get reported to that elected official. Remember, each House member has to run for re-election next year. You don't need to remind them of that. They're very, very aware of it.
If you're already doing this: 
If you're not, why not? What do you have to lose?
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They're afraid of doing them these days. If there are some, though, I hope you'll go and ask questions.
I just did the same thing, and worded my question exactly like yours.
I am going to contact some of the Democrats in my precinct and some in the Indivisible group I belong to. We should all do this.
You rock! 
