Expand House Of Representatives

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The House of Representatives needs to be expanded from its current 435 members. The Constitution describes each district as 20,000 to 30,000 people. We currently have representation of one representative per 750,000 constituents.

The president should pressure Congress to repeal the Appointionment act of 1929 and expand representation to no less than double today’s numbers.

This would have impacts on our direct access to representatives as well as impacts on gerrymandering and the Electoral College

  1. Expand the house to 870
  2. Require state legislature to redraw congressional districts that max out at 375,000 people and have no “flagpole” boundaries. Meaning lines that reach into areas designed for protection of the seat.
  3. Require an expansion of the house when the census is taken with the ultimate goal of districts being 100,000 people per representative. This would be mandated by 2050 census.
  4. The Electoral College should utilize the congressional district method like Maine and Nebraska rather than the winner take all version it is today.

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Better representation would be a good thing but more government doesn’t seem to sit well with me because so much of it is already ineffective. Perhaps we could see what happens after Elon Musk cuts the budget and Donald Trump streamlines policy, and hopefully demands more useful and effective work out of those we already have.

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