August Recess is Approaching - Time to Setup a Meeting with Your Member of Congress discusses how the August Recess provides a great opportunity to invite a member of Congress to visit your company:

Having a member of Congress visit your company is one of the most important government relations activities you can undertake. It is that the most effective activity for obtaining support for ESOPs from a member of Congress. The company visit is more effective than a visit in the member of Congress's home office and certainly more effective than visiting with a member of Congress in Washington DC.

The post also recommends The Congressional Company Visit Kit: Practical Steps for Unparalleled Results, Summer 2008:

The report we will supply will tell you what prior record, if any, the member of Congress has on ESOP issues. The report will tell you what committees in Congress the member serves on, and what relevancy, if any, those committees have to ESOP laws. The report will tell you what the public record says is that member's prime interests as a legislator, and the major, if any, legislative initiatives the member of Congress is involved with. Finally this report will share any interesting data about the member who will visit your company that is relevant to her or his service in Congress, and/or issues.