[plussed_reader]

How do you propose a group of 50,000 people interface with their elected congress critters? Individual email? A chosen spokesperson to 'lobby' their interest?

If an individual company chooses one employee(say someone with a legal background) to interact with an elected official is that person a lobbyist or an employee?

I'm not sure what you're suggesting.

[nitrogen]

Representatives were supposed to scale with the population so that one rep could reasonably represent all of the people in their district.

There are tons of ways to restructure the US legislative system that would ameliorate the current problems -- uncap the number of reps, allow individuals to override a fractional vote of their rep, split representation into technocratic branches and let everyone vote for a different rep on each domain, let people vote for committee membership, switch to approval voting or proportional representation, introduce term limits for reps and their staff, etc.

[myko]

This totally makes sense. The US House is about 1000 (or more) members short.

[syshum]

The Wyoming Rule (i.e no District should be larger than the the least populous State AKA Wyoming) would put the US House at about 850-860 Representatives

I think this would be the best approach

[Accujack]

>How do you propose a group of 50,000 people interface with their elected congress critters?

Setting aside the reasons this situation exists and the problems it's creating, I believe the usual methods are mail, e-mail, and phone calls.

Or if that doesn't work, then torches and pitchforks.

Everyone who knew about the DMCA before it went into effect hated it, but the monied interests pushed it through. Corruption in action.

[mdpopescu]

> Or if that doesn't work, then torches and pitchforks.

It's America. I think the Matrix quote "guns; lots of guns" is more appropriate :)

[pmiller2]

Call me old fashioned, but I like guillotines, myself.

[qalmakka]

The main issue is that when the industry lobbies the politicians, in the USA, it tends to mean that they are writing them big fat checks as "political donations". This is corruption plain and simple, and a huge stain on the integrity of American politics. This kind of crap also does pass elsewhere, but at least when the industry lobbies politicians in other places it tends not to be so open and blatant.