Make Congress larger:

[Matt Collins]

The US House of Representatives is too small...








https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YMVF0PU-ic

[acptulsa]

Is this his idea of a government jobs program?

The new WPA, the We Piddle Around Works Progress Administration?

[TheTexan]

I would love to get elected to the House.

Cushiest, easiest job of all time. Literally have to do nothing, with lots of opportunities for extra easy money on top of it all.

I may try for a House run, if my current Presidential run isn't successful.

[Bern]

https://thirty-thousand.org/

[Bern]

BTW:

... U.S. Congressman Sean Casten (IL-06) introduced a package of legislation to increase the size of the House and Senate, as well as restore the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction to better align with Article III of the US Constitution.

The package, named “A Common Sense Vision for American Democracy” would:

• Establish 12 at-large senators to be elected through a nationwide system of ranked choice voting
• Add approximately 138 additional Members of the House (if it had been implemented after the 2020 census)
• Change the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and create a 13-judge multi-circuit panel to hear cases where the United States or a federal agency is a party

This is the first attempt by a sitting Member of Congress to enact this type of reform. There have been no attempts in Congress to expand the Senate or reinstate the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. The last time the House was expanded was in 1911. After an inability to settle disputes over reapportionment after the 1920 Census, the size of the House was arbitrarily locked in place at 435 in 1929.

An overview of A Common Sense Vision for American Democracy can found below, including bill text and section-by-sections of the legislation.
...

https://casten.house.gov/media/press...-change-scotus

Pending:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-...house-bill/643

[Occam's Banana]

And this goes here ...

Is America Too Big?
Is America too big for democracy? Too big for its traditional republican form? What does it mean if the answer is yes? This video series proposes that the source of our biggest social and political problems is our SIZE. Like the, obese, 600 pound man who experiences heart failure, diabetes, and dozens of other ailments, so too does America, only its diseases go by the names Debt, War, Entitlements, Gridlock, and Corruption. Our problems cannot be fixed through any change in ideology or bi-partisan agreement in Congress, because those are not the root of our problems. The source is our size. As America's population increases, the level of representation and control each voter has must inexorably decrease. As power centralizes in a federal government, literally out of the hands of its citizens, conflicts and problems mount. What can be done? Please watch and join the conversation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCNd7h0fsdE

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[PAF]

What if there was like 300 Million representatives, and each of us represented ourself? You know, like actual free people.

[TheTexan]

What if there was like 300 Million representatives, and each of us represented ourself? You know, like actual free people.

Your request has been carefully considered, and denied, peasant.

[Voluntarist]

The US House of Representatives is too small...

So, going to a House of Representatives of 573 members (like in the video), we're talking about California getting an extra 17 Congresscritters, while states like Wyoming, Alaska, North Dakota, Montana, Maine, and New Hampshire don't get any extra.

And it's also designed to give populous blue states more votes in the Electoral College than those rural red states.

[oyarde]

So, going to a House of Representatives of 573 members (like in the video), we're talking about California getting an extra 17 Congresscritters, while states like Wyoming, Alaska, North Dakota, Montana, Maine, and New Hampshire don't get any extra.

And it's also designed to give populous blue states more votes in the Electoral College than those rural red states.

No doubt . Only way I'd ever consider expanding the house would be if the were required to limit spending to Article One Section Eight and a balanced budget ea yr with no tax increases.