Politics & Government

Call for Comments Causes Congressional Site Crash

Several Congressional websites experience server overloads after President Barack Obama urges Americans to contact their representatives regarding the debt-ceiling.

President Barack Obama on Monday night asked the American people to speak out about the debt-ceiling crisis, and they listened.

His call for comments sent unusual amounts of traffic to Congressional websites, causing a majority of those sites to crash on Tuesday, many remaining down, as reported on Politico.

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