Public Knowledge organized a Capitol Hill lobbying day...

said in a news release (http://bit.ly/18kE6bA). “Congress has heard from tech companies, the administration, and from the National Security Agency,” said PK Vice President-Government Affairs Chris Lewis in a statement. “Now is the time for constituents to come to the Hill and tell their leaders that unwarranted surveillance and bulk collection can’t continue.” The Hill lobbying targeted “some of the bigger offices” on Capitol Hill, such as those of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and “a slew of other people on Intelligence and Judiciary,” with a focus on leadership, a PK spokesman said, noting the 570,000 signatures in support of the Stop Watching Us petition (http://bit.ly/H7ipWb). “The whole point is to put a face to the signatures.” Public Knowledge didn’t pass out specific talking points about bills, but its broader talking point is, “This is what this means to me, this is how it impacts my life,” said the spokesman. The Stop Watching Us coalition also plans Hill briefings for the House at 9:30 a.m. Monday and the Senate at 2 p.m. (http://bit.ly/17iXwnj). The coalition includes groups such as Public Knowledge, the American Civil Liberties Union, Free Press, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, TechFreedom and others.