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Do you think it is better to expand congress size(both senate and house of representatives) so there will be more representativeness per person?

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The United States have the least representativeness per person in federal level among all the developed countries, do you think this is a problem?
 
The United States have the least representativeness per person in federal level among all the developed countries, do you think this is a problem?
It is absolutely a problem. We should go back to the one representative for every 30,000 to 50,000 people. With modern communications, this can be dome. Representatives can actually speak and represent their constituents.

The senate should stay at two per state, and also selected as the original constitution was laid out.
 
no. managing 438 Divas is already like herding cats
Not to mention the nearly 25,000 House staffers and about 6,000 Senate staffers.
Maybe staffers should be sElected by voters?
 
The United States have the least representativeness per person in federal level among all the developed countries, do you think this is a problem?
I think it would make sense to go back to the original plan. We are seeing too many problems with stuff like gerrymandering and bribery with the current number of districts.
 
I'd have no problem with repealing the 17th amendment.
 
The United States have the least representativeness per person in federal level among all the developed countries, do you think this is a problem?

No. IMHO, the problem is the continuous expansion of federal government power (control?) and expense.
 
Ratify Article the First!

Last of the original 12 amendments proposed.
I would be fine with it. It would be a lot harder for the rich to bribe ~6,000 congress critters than 438.
 
The United States have the least representativeness per person in federal level among all the developed countries, do you think this is a problem?
The Constitution when written gave the representation at 30,000 per representative. This was a time prior to modern political parties, when chances were that most of the folks in a district would know the individuals running or know of them to represent them. But with the advent of the modern political party, most folks now vote political party instead of individuals or candidates themselves. That isn’t about to change, so increasing the number of representatives wouldn’t do anything about this. There’s only around 10-15% of the electorate who don’t vote political party. Then again, with all the gerrymandering going one, increasing the number of representatives wouldn’t affect that either.
 
The Constitution when written gave the representation at 30,000 per representative.

That would give NYC about 280 US House seats.

 

So you want the House of Representatives increased to 11,000 seats?
 
So you want the House of Representatives increased to 11,000 seats?

If each US House member was allowed to speak (debate?) about a bill (or other matter) for an hour then it would take 458 (working 24 hours) days to debate a bill (or other matter). Since the US House is typically ‘in session’ for 147 days/year, it would take about three years to debate (discuss?) each (important?) bill.
 
Homework assignment? All the AI engines dead this morning?
 
Do you think it is better to expand congress size(both senate and house of representatives)?
NO!!! Congress is already too big/powerful. If anything, it needs to be trimmed down.

"I am convinced that there are more threats to American liberty within the 10 mile radius of my office on Capitol Hill than there are on the rest of the globe." -- Ron Paul

"As government expands, liberty contracts." - Ronald Reagan
 

Not practical, at all.

Currently the 435 House seats on average represent 758,000 people per seat. To get to anywhere near your suggestion would have 6,600 people in just the House of Representatives.

What I can see is trying to get that number to say each seat represented 600,000 people which would push the House to 550 seats. *However,* there will be complications on applying the same standards of seats to States then redrawing all the districts. We are going through this now mid-census and it is nothing short of a fiasco.

The Senate is another matter, but even just going to 3 or 4 Senators per State does not on it's own change the dynamic given how you vote for a Senator.
 
The Constitution mandates that Congress be increased and that would be good for the country.

If the senate isn't changed, a small minority of voters will increasingly control the body.
 

A larger Congress doesn't make it more powerful. Where did you get such a crazy idea?
 
No. What needs to be done is force the representatives we have to represent us instead of big money.
 
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