Search by zip code or street address to identify your local representative.  (Look for the "Enter your Zip Code" box near the top of the screen.)  This site also provides:

• Link to the rep's official website
• List of committees (but not subcommittees)
• Major opponent in last election (under Bio)
• Info on Political Action Committee Contributions from recent election cycles
  

This site provides information on the House of Representatives races in the 2008 election.  It will tell you:

• candidate names and political party affiliations
• the exact number of votes each candidate received
• the percentage breakdown
• whether either candidate had been the incumbent
• NB: this site does not provide candidate first names, but you can learn those from Congress.org (above) or from newspaper articles.

Use this site to find detailed information on campaign contributions to each candidate (sources and amounts), campaign expenditures (including postage and restaurants!), and a cash summary.  Very interesting!

Use Access World News to find newspaper articles analyzing the 2008 House race in your district.  This database contains full-text articles from hundreds of newspapers from around the country and the world. 

Drill down to the United States, then select your state and search for articles containing candidate names and the words campaign or election.

Provides daily updated information on the U.S. legislature, including full text of bills starting in 1989, public laws starting in 1988, committee reports starting in 1990, House and Senate documents starting in 1995, Congressional Record starting in 1985, Federal Register starting in 1980, National Journal starting in 1977 and other government information.

To find out the committees and subcommittees your representative serves on:

• Click Members & Committees in the side bar
• Enter the member's name
• Click the dot for Personal Profiles
• Click Search

You can get full committee information from this site as well, including members' ranks in the committees.  Demographic traits of each member are listed in their profiles.

Use the Census Bureau's website to get demographic information about your home Congressional district.

• Look for the gray box in the left-hand sidebar labelled Address Search. 
• Click Enter Street Address, and enter your address. Click Search.
• Scroll down in the resulting box to select the level of geography.  Select "Congressional District - 110th" which is the most recent Congressional district available on the site. Click OK.
• Scroll down the resulting list.  Look for Quick Tables and Demographic Profiles.  The first option, Profile of General Population Demographics, could be useful.  Data is based on the 2000 census.

You can also re-do the search based on the 2007 American Community Survey; the data will be more recent but will have a larger margin of error since not every community is surveyed.  To do this, change the top drop-down box on the page from Census 2000 to 2007 American Community Survey, and re-do the rest of the steps.

The 2008 Almanac is a year out of date, but it provides fairly detailed information on each Representative in the 110th Congress, as well as demographic information on each district. 

• Under Browse the Almanac click on States & Districts, and drill down to your state. 
• Use the drop-down menu to select the district (along with the representative from the last Congress)
• Scroll all the way to the bottom for district demographics.