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How about we just go back to expanding the House based on population instead of keeping it static at 435 forever? We're approaching a million constituents per r
by maxwell 3y ago
How about we just go back to expanding the House based on population instead of keeping it static at 435 forever? We're approaching a million constituents per representative. Corruption seems a mathematical certainty.
- danaris 3y agoThat would genuinely make a huge positive difference (though it would not, of course, fix the whole system, since the House is not the only place with problems). There's no need, in this day and age, to have the entire House of Representatives meet physically in one building.
- maxwell 3y agoAgreed. Let's go fully remote, sell off most federal property in DC, and retrocede Washington back to Maryland (like Alexandria County back in 1846), dissolving DC and draining the swamp for good. Then we can take proposals for creating a District of Lincoln or Roosevelt for meetings and events closer to the center of population, e.g. Kansas City (near mean center) or the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio (near median center). https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/zoom-congress-perfectly-constitutional/610057 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/zoom-congr...