House websites slowed by e-mails on bailout bill

Public interest and concern over the bailout bill has caused a significant slowdown on the website of the House of Representatives. E-mail traffic in recent days has increased in volume by three or four times the normal rate, according to Jeff Ventura, a spokesman for the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer. He attributed the resulting slowdown to "the extraordinary interest in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 and a dramatic increase in the number of constituents e-mailing their members of Congress surrounding the bill."