Who should use these files
Software designers and Web site developers who require accurate consistent legislator data for their custom applications. We update the information continually and perform major research quarterly.

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• Since 1990, we have delivered on time, accurate legislator data.
• We perform our own research including major updates every three months.
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• We maintain consistent field names and sizes for the life of the product.
• We use relational ID fields to link like data between tables.
• Our relational fields can also be used for sorting.

Legislator Information - 8115 Legislator Names and Addresses including the U.S. Congress, the State Legislators from all 50 states, and the Executive Branch from all 50 states (Governors, Lt. Governors, Attorney Generals, and Secretaries of State). The information includes capitol and preferred mailing addresses, phone numbers for the capitol, work/district office, home, and fax, E-mail, web site address, brief bio information plus more. The Leadership positions are indicated and selectable. For each state legislature there is the main mailing address, clerk name, phone, fax, bill information number, and Web site.

Committees - There are approximately 3100 committees and subcommittees with approximately 36,000 Committee Seat assignments. The committees are also grouped by jurisdiction into 34 distinct categories. You can select legislators from just health or tax committees etc. The committee members have seat seniority numbers and titles including chairman, vice-chairman, ranking member, regular member, and ex-officio member. Additional data is included for Congressional Committees.

Congressional Office Staff - For each Member's office we include the name and email address of the chief of staff, scheduler, legislative director, press secretary, and the legislative assistants for 16 issue areas: agriculture, arts, defense, education, energy, environment, financial services, foreign policy, health, homeland security, judiciary, labor, science and technology, tax, trade, and transportation. There are over 4,000 office staff names.

Congressional Committee Staff - The key staff for each committee and subcommittee are included. The name, title, room, and personal phone numbers for each staff person is included. There are over 2,000 committee staff names.

Congressional Leadership Staff - The key staff for each Congressional Leadership Office are included.

Congressional District Office addresses - The mailing address and phone numbers plus a main office indicator are included for over 1300 offices.

Photograph files - We maintain .jpg images of all the Members of Congress and several states.

Congressional Floor Vote Records - All congressional votes beginning with the 101st Congress are maintained.

Zip+4 to Legislative district Databases - Every Zip code and Zip+4 are cross referenced to the congressional and state legislative districts.

IDs and Relational Fields - There are unique ID fields that are used as relational fields linking like data between tables. They also serve as sort fields for State Alphabetical/District order or Alphabetical order.

The files are designed for relational databases and can be delivered in ASCII or Microsoft Access formats. The database can be delivered with our Congress Plus or State Plus software which allows mail merge preparation, reporting, etc.