These guys meet twice a year and spend well over a million dollars doing it....( calculate transportation, housing , meals in pricey hotel for several hundred bishops TWICE a year).

Their "support" of a given issue (or its rejection) is communicated by a LETTER .

Their actual track record in lobbying for the items MSW identified is practically nil...it's a big deal if a bishop gets the mic and pressures his colleagues into a somewhat stronger verbal position...which probably has no effect either.

A suggestion: use technology to communicate and stay at home.

IF there's an issue, perhaps the homelessness, poverty, lack of health care et al that ACTUALLY stirs some feelings in an individual bishop or his colleagues...GO to Capitol Hill, notify media, walk the halls of Congress, take folks with you, sit down and discuss your concerns with staff or member, give a press conference on the Capitol steps....

DONT Continue to waste donor money wining and dining yourselves in fancy hotels...