I have updated the database and Congressmember protraits to match the current Congressional contact information for Congress Merge. I also made several changes to the background code used for the site to simplify site maintenance.

I have been adding all the new members of Congress that have been sworn in over the last week to fill in vacant posts. The major change will occur on January 3, 2011 when all the winners of the 2010 elections will be sworn in.

With the midterm elections yesterday, there are three appointments to the Senate expired with the election: Kaufman (DE), Burris (IL), and Goodwin (WV).  Those are now vacant seats to be filled at the start of the Lame Duck session November 15 with winners from today’s elections.  Also to be filled on November 15 are the winners to fill vacant House seats in the 3rd district of Indiana and the 29th district of New York.

And for those people either celebrating or bemoaning the Republican gains in yesterday’s election, I will remind you of the Onion article form the last midterm elections that in the end politicians took all seats in the House and Senate, so really, we all lost.

There have been a few un-noted updates, mostly minor, since July.  I am simply noting that today I completely re-synchronized with the database maintained by Congress Merge.

Updated the website to reflect recent updates to the Congress Merge database. This includes the appointment of a new Senator, Senator Carte P. Goodwin (D-WV), to replace Senator Byrd, who passed away. I have also updated the ZIP code to Congressional District database to reflect recent changes noted by Congress Merge.

I am updating the database to match Congress Merge‘s database. most notably, to note the passing of the longest serving Senator in history, Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) (NY Times Story).

On about June 9, 2010, this site had its 10 millionth visitor. Wow!

I updated the website to be in sync with the Congress Merge database.

This past week was one of the busiest in this site’s history, but the new server took it in stride. Just did another update to synchronize with the CongressMerge database.

This site is getting pounded, but the new server is handling the load very well. Nice not to have to bring down my ISP every time there is big political chaos.

I have pushed through another update to reflect updates made by CongressMerge to
their database.

Updated the website to reflect recent updates to the CongressMerge database. This includes various recent resignations of members of Congress.