
Amid a boisterous debate on healthcare reform, people flooded members of Congress on Thursday with so many emails that they overloaded the House’s primary Web site. Technical support issued a warning to congressional staff that the site, www.house.gov, may be slow or unresponsive because of the large volume of email being sent to members. Jeff Ventura, a spokesperson for the House’s chief administrative officer, which maintains the Web site, said traffic data was not available and could not be released without the lawmakers’ consent.