Find out your district
To find out which congressional district you live in, you have many options. Consider one of the following to help you:
If you’re registered to vote, your voter card will tell you. If not (and if you’re eligible), you should register to vote.
Otherwise, the US House of Representatives home page has a tool to look up your representative by ZIP+4. The result gives the representative’s name and congressional district, with a link to that representative’s page. Check it out here.
Going beyond the basics, the Internet has many resources for researching the subject: Wikipedia, Answers.com, and the Web sites of news outlets, political sites, government sources and candidates.
Without Internet access, libraries do a great job of answering questions like this. Friends and neighbors may know. Sometimes a simple map is enough to ascertain which district you’re in, as district boundaries often run along county boundaries; while urban areas can be more difficult.
In the meantime, once you find out your district and who represents you, it is important that you keep up with them and know what is going on in your area, politically. That’s our responsibility as Americans.
