Should there be more members in the U.S. House of Representatives?

[Nym90]

Increasing the size of the House wouldn't require a Constitutional Amendment. Until 1910, the size of the House increased with every census so as to keep the population of each district the same. If nothing else, we could always go back to that system, and "freeze" the population of the districts at their current level by just increasing the size of the House every 10 years.

[minionofmidas]

And MODU, more districts would increase the liklihood of 3rd party or independent canadidates winning at least one or two of them.

hahaha . . . maybe.  But it will more likely result in more Republicans and Democrats being elected and screwing everything up even more.  

If the number of Representatives increase, then I would recommend as a part of the legislation authroizing this that Representative pay be lowered and fixed across the board, and only increase 3% a year.  This would off-set the added costs for more government-paid staff and the construction/renovation of existing buildings to house the additional offices of all the new people.

I'd also reduce the no. of federally paid-for staffers per Rep, which is currently quite inflated. (And abolish teenage sex slaves pages.)

[Keystone Phil]

It looks like we are getting more members regardless. Utah's State Legislature is redrawing their Congressional districts to add another seat. This is in response to the Congress likely passing a bill giving DC a voting member. In the end, R +1 and D +1 = No fun.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I think at least 500

[7,052,770]

It looks like we are getting more members regardless. Utah's State Legislature is redrawing their Congressional districts to add another seat. This is in response to the Congress likely passing a bill giving DC a voting member. In the end, R +1 and D +1 = No fun.

so will they have 4 special elections sometime this year?

[© tweed]

No.  I don't want to see the day where we have 1000 Reps running around Washington.  That'd be chaotic.