House Web sites and phone systems were jammed to the point of failure this afternoon from masses of constituent e-mails and phone calls related to the impending health care reform bill, according to House offices and administrators.
The calls apparently started after conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh gave out the main Capitol switchboard number on the air.
An employee who answers phones at the House Office of Telecommunications, which maintains the chamber's phone systems, said the switchboard has been inundated "in every way."



