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Why would Pence, the Senate President, swear in a House member?

 

A busty intern in a tight dress, no less.
Must be tough to find one of them around the White House, eh?

 

But the House doesn't offer proportional representation.

California has 69 times the population of Wyoming . . . and 53 times the representation.

The math makes it impossible. You can't go lower than 1 or higher than 438.

 

Then introduce legislation or a Constitutional amendment (I'm not sure exactly which would be required) to expand the House. It's been at 435 since 1913.
The reason we have the House and the Senate and they're set up the way they are is because there was a concern about the large states dominating the small ones. It's one of many checks and balances, and it's still one that appears to be needed.

 

I think there might be one or two more of those to come.

Also, that means the Democrats have a chance to get to at least 230 if they hold the seven races they are leading that haven't been called.

 

Why we are where we are

 

It's stuck because we permanently stuck it.

The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives

 

A little Google-Fu says that "permanent" actually means "it can be changed by a simple majority of both houses of Congress."
So it could be done without amending the Constitution or requiring a super majority.
Maybe in a few years when the Democrats are running everything and Gavin Newsom is president they'll get around to it. Probably just make all 475 or whatever it would be now from California, just to be safe. Even if people don't live there, that's where everybody wants to live.

 

I blame Biden.

 

Senate apportionment has been kicked around since the Alien and Sedition acts, Batman. The two-senator allotment was ignorant of demographic shifts in the late 19th century, never mind our own.

 

That's not fair. You told me just last week that you want to live in Biloxi or Slidell.

 

And yet it, and our country, has managed to survive and thrive with it the way it is for 230 years. So why is this suddenly some major injustice?