    Congressional Directory for the 105th Congress (1997-1998), June 1997.
    [Pages v-vi]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                    FOREWORD

        The Congressional Directory is one of the oldest working handbooks
    in the United States government. While there have been directories of
    one form or another since the first Congress of the United States in
    1789, the Congressional Directory for the first session of the 30th
    Congress (1847) is considered by scholars and historians to be the first
    official edition because it is the first to be ordered and paid for by
    the Congress. With the addition of biographical sketches of legislators
    in 1867, the Congressional Directory attained its modern format.

        The Congressional Directory is published by the United States Senate
    in partnership with the Government Printing Office, at the direction of
    the Joint Committee on Printing under the authority of Title 44, Section
    721 of the U.S. Code.

        Senate                                 House

    John W. Warner, VA, Chairman.       Bill Thomas, CA, Vice Chairman.
    Thad Cochran, MS                    Robert W. Ney, OH
    Mitch McConnell, KY                 Kay Granger, TX
    Wendell H. Ford, KY                 Steny H. Hoyer, MD
    Daniel K. Inouye, HI                Sam Gejdenson, CT

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