Remember this guy? Yeah, I barely do, too. But way back in 2006 I put some of the lingering knowledge I had during an earlier job together with a newfound passion for writing horrible rats' nests of Perl code. The result was a set of scripts that could scrape the rather lame HTML interface to House Information Service's zipcode+9-to-congressional-database matching service.

I'm sure my scripts haven't aged all that well, but Aaron Swartz was kind enough to take up the torch and share a set of Python scripts he coded to accomplish the same thing. Thanks, Aaron!

Those of you looking for zipcode-to-congressional-district matching would do well to check those scripts out. You might also want to follow the threads from this tweet, in which exoDitto Tim Jones asks the LazyWeb for other solutions to the problem.