Congress Websites Down: House, Senate Sites Not Working (UPDATE)

Numerous websites for House and Senate members experienced downtime Monday night following a speech from President Barack Obama on ongoing talks to raise the debt ceiling.

The website DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com confirms that the following websites were among those affected:
-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
-House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio)
-Rep. Elliot Engel (D-N.Y.)
-Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho)
-Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)
-Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.)
-Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
-Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)
-Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)

Not all are down though. Among the congressional websites that currently work without any problems is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.). The websites of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Jarry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) also work.

The cause of the outages is not yet clear, though Obama did encourage people to contact their representatives in Congress.

UPDATE (10:53 p.m. ET): Some of the sites above are now experiencing intermittent issues. They seem to return briefly and go back down. Some say "Server too busy," others say "Server error," and some do not load at all.

UPDATE (11:10 p.m. ET): All the above sites seem to be back now except for Boehner's, however most are loading slowly.

UPDATE (11:17 p.m. ET): The website of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is down at this time, as is the site of Nan Hayworth (R-N.Y.).

UPDATE (11:25 p.m. ET): Also down at this time are the sites of Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.), Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.), Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.), Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) and Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.).

UPDATE (1:50 a.m. ET): The House and Senate websites now seem back to normal.

Comments

[dadw5boys]

11:25 AM on 07/27/2011

Maybe the Hackers with find the Koch Borthers cell phone numbers and they can be crashed too

[stlouisgrisby]

03:14 AM on 07/27/2011

this CREATED CRISIS IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE GREY OLD PARTY OF DOOM & GLOOM BE VERY AFRAID VERY AFRIAD BECAUSE OF THE BLACK GUY IN THE ROOM! A LITTLE TIRED TO NIGHT GUY`S SO I CLOSE BY SAYING REMEMBER TO KEEP FIGHTING THE LIES AND KEEP THEM TROLLS UNDER THE BRIDGE!

[Daniel Farady]

01:35 AM on 07/27/2011

Ha!!

I beat them to the story:

http://goo.gl/Z0QyT

[Patricia013]

11:19 PM on 07/26/2011

You can still call and be heard:

Everyone needs to write or email or call their congressme­n. Let them know we will not be trampled without a fight and they WILL pay for this November 2012. Find your representa­tives: http:// www.house.­gov and your senators: http://www­.senate.go­v and communicat­e with them...or call the Capitol Switchboard at 202 224-3121 The more of us who only vent here yet stay silent the more these people will push through their evil agenda!

[MJH28]

10:22 PM on 07/26/2011

What is really frustrating is that I have heard conservative congressional offices stating that the calls they were receiving were supportive of their teaparty stance and that any not affirming were plants. Ugh! I am so disgusted. I live in a district with a teaparty representative that signed the no tax pledge. How can our voices be heard if no one will even listen??????

[Patricia013]

11:20 PM on 07/26/2011

they can say whatever they want but you can be sure they're counting the calls for and against them and weighing them against next years elections.

[wendy scott]

12:57 AM on 07/27/2011

I call anyway. Sometimes they are rude and condescending but I don't care. They need to know that we are paying attention and know what they are up to. The more you do it the easier it becomes.
Give Em H#//

[anitaportrichey]

09:19 PM on 07/26/2011

Wasn't that nice. Senator Bill Nelson sent me an email asking what I thought should be done with the debt ceiling issue. Now that is a great Senator!

Obama 2012!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

[alterego55]

09:07 PM on 07/26/2011

UPDATE (11:25 p.m. ET): Also down at this time are the sites of Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.), Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.), Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.), Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) and Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.).

Looks like Arkansas has only one web server, and all the candidates are on it. Its probably in someone's garage ... or barn. Hehehe

[PINKU245]

08:29 PM on 07/26/2011

What needs to happen is for these individuals that say they work for what we want need to give back the salaries they have recieved,because they are not doing what we want them to do.they are raping the AMERICAN Public and getting away with it.This guy named Boehner or Baynor which ever it is. Him and all those that serve our so called need need to resign and we can start all over with a new breed of individuals who are not used to having their way.We also need to set a salary for these individuals so they dont get to used to having the easy life and screwing up the whole country with all the crap they think we eat. We can impeach a president well lets impeach every single individual thats up there representing us from each state and bring in new blood and teach them that when this country wants something done its done and not played with.

[Patricia013]

11:22 PM on 07/26/2011

We should also ban all congressmen from dealing with lobbiests!...or from accepting any gifts or campaign donations from them. That is where the biggest problem lies!

[wendy scott]

12:59 AM on 07/27/2011

Amen ..Fanned and Faved.

[gypsysailor]

07:11 PM on 07/26/2011

Perhaps it is time to peacefully take to the streets and surround the homes of the Washington politicians who can't seem to play nice. Just bring some water, food and maybe some sort of sunblocking canopy and set up on the lawns and driveways of these people. No need to be rude or shout angry slogans at them or their families, just show up, sit down and be nice. Make this a peaceful protest to send a message to the politicians. The message is this...THE ART OF POLITICS IS COMPROMISE. So get compromising and tear up the pledges you may have signed. You were elected to do a job, not take a stance.

[Patricia013]

11:24 PM on 07/26/2011

...sounds like an old fashioned sit-in. I like that :-)

[pep1]

12:31 PM on 07/27/2011

It will take another civil rights movement.

[RBlakeH01]

06:47 PM on 07/26/2011

And the liberal lemmings are off and running. The demonicRATs are in a tailspin trying to figure out which trap door contains the free handouts.

[satanlite]

08:44 PM on 07/26/2011

It's always nice to see a typical Republican display their maturity to the public. I salute you, sir/madam!

[AnathTheGoddess]

08:52 PM on 07/26/2011

What do you expect from someone when they don't have a real argument?

[RBlakeH01]

09:33 PM on 07/26/2011

I know and thanks for the "left" handed compliment. But the truth does hurt doesn't it.

[Gio Salerno]

10:51 PM on 07/26/2011

Yes, free handouts to GE,Exxon Mobil and all the other giant companies that are making billions and getting handouts from the taxpayer.

[RBlakeH01]

11:15 PM on 07/26/2011

Amazing isn't it that the CEO of GE is on the Residents counsel and made 16 billion last year and paid no taxes at all. Your messiah at work for you. Do some research and see how much the companies you listed paid the DNC last year.

[wolfmanchuck1]

06:35 PM on 07/26/2011

They just don't want to hear from the people they only do what they want, not what the people want.

[ragnbully]

06:21 PM on 07/26/2011

Let us all default and watch the feds come after us!

[ragnbully]

06:18 PM on 07/26/2011

Maybe a complete media black-out would be a good thing. They seem to be spending all their time in front of the cameras blaming each other!

[onionboy]

05:54 PM on 07/26/2011

Sometimes my "website is down" when I don't want to see anymore email.

[Susan Breslin]

05:49 PM on 07/26/2011

The congressional telephone exchange (all congressional numbers) was busy almost all morning, and the congressional website crashed.