Democrat wants to expand House of Representatives by 150 seats to create smaller voting districts
Fox News
A House Democrat says there aren't enough House members to represent a growing U.S. population, and is proposing the addition of 150 more lawmakers to the House chamber.
"[T]he number of constituents living in a single congressional district has dramatically increased since the number of House members was arbitrarily capped in 1929," Blumenauer said Monday. "Current district sizes threaten the direct constituent connection on which the House was founded. Simply, congressional districts are too large." Pete Kasperowicz is a politics editor at Fox News Digital.
The 435-seat limit in the House was established by law in 1929, but Blumenauer notes that change took place when the population of the U.S. was 122 million. Today, the population is nearly 330 million, and Blumenauer notes that if the U.S. keeps growing, lawmakers in the House will represent more than 1 million people on average by 2050.