Obama’s call to contact your reps in Washington crashes servers?

President Obama last night called on Americans to contact their representatives in Washington about the debt limit. Apparently, many people took action on his directive and may have overloaded servers hosting congressional webpages.

"I'm asking you all to make your voice heard," Obama said during his televised address to the nation on the debt limit Monday evening. "If you want a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, let your Member of Congress know. If you believe we can solve this problem through compromise, send that message."

But multiple news sources report that congressional websites crashed following the president's speech. "The web page cannot be found," House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) site read.

"Our Senate website appears to be struggling tonight, but we're listening here on Twitter," Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) tweeted. And Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-Minn.) website, the House Democrats' Budget Committee site and other congressional pages were reportedly on the fritz.

National Journal directly connected the outages to Obama's request, while others questioned whether there was really a relation between the two.

"There were temporary issues with sites hosted by outside vendors--many have been resolved," a spokeswoman for the House Administration Committee told CNN.

Many of the sites were reportedly back in working order hours after the speech had concluded.