President Obama's Address to Congress

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Regarding Dana Milbank's Washington Sketch column "A Tale of 140 Characters, Plus the Ones in Congress":

As a new technology, Twitter has tremendous potential to connect members of Congress and citizens, making members' actions more transparent, accountable and immediately accessible to constituents. As Mr. Milbank showed, not every tweet written by members of Congress will be profound, and some make former senator Bob Graham's diaries seem short on detail. That's not the fault of the medium, though, and we'd be better served if more members used the technology.

BILL ALLISON

Washington

The writer is a senior fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit group advocating transparency in government.