text: I couldn't agree more!
  
  The good bishop AND his colleagues need to walk those halls, talk to those staffers and principals and involve the media in this effort! They need to get off their duffs!!!
  
  I used to complain that the USCCB just sent "letters" to Congress...essentially a boilerplate with
  particular issues identified...lots of reference to Matthew 25....and sent to key Committee heads.
  
  Having walked those halls myself, figured out ways to make a point and included the media whenever possible (I have a vague memory of using supermarket carts to deliver the statewide petition results we had acquired, broken out by districts) to the various state legislators relative to proposed cuts in poverty programs, pending (that would reduce the groceries they could buy). And I did get the media to cover the event!
  
  We need creativity...but most of all we need presence! These hierarchs really do need to be physically present in their state legislatures AND Congress, it's called Christianity!