This electronic database is ideal for anyone who wants or needs to “work” Congress. In fact, lobbyists and public-interest groups will soon probably wonder how they ever got along without it.
Built on the versatile HyperCard program, it pulls together information about every member of Congress, their biographies, home districts (including maps and zip-codes), office staff
(names, roles, and phone numbers), and committee assignments. This information is all available on paper, but not from one source, not so conveniently cross-linked and customizable, and not in a
form where it can be so quickly searched and output to other applications. You can, for example, take a zip code and quickly find
what Congressional District it’s in and who represents it. Or take
