Why are we still limiting the House to 435 members?

[Slander and/or Libel]

I lost the calculations I did a while back, but I believe if this methodology were used from the beginning of the Republic through to today, the House would have somewhere north of 3,000 seats. There are potential logistical problems with that, and not just resulting from the physical size of the chamber. But I suppose what gets me about the Wyoming Rule is that if the smallest entitled unit happens to grow faster than the rest of the population, a bunch of states could wind up losing seats in the next cycle simply because of the fact that a state with a small population doesn't have to swing very much in an absolute sense to produce fairly large changes in terms of percentages.

[Kingpoleon]

How many people can logistically fit in the house?

Anyway, the problem is that politicians aren't very popular and very few people want more comgresspeople (even if it would make democratic sense).

Tripling its size would cost tens of millions of dollars. On the other hand, I think we should have either 499/501 or 999/1001 Representatives. It needs to be an odd amount.

[Simfan34]

Office space is less of a concern; they could rent a building if they really needed it. I think physical space is a reasonable concern. One solution would be to replace the seats with British-style benches, which was actually proposed in the 19th century. I'll see if I can find the picture of the plan.

e:I think this is it. It apparently would have seated 409 members. There were also plans to remove the lobby and make space for 550. Keeping the hemicycle layout (although the House of Commons layout would be fantastic) with benches could fit a lot more people.

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I dunno, I like the idea of electing very small people to fit them in better. Or have them appear via hologram or something.

[defe07]

I believe in expanding the House using the Wyoming Rule (could change it to the Small State Rule, since WY could stop being the smallest state but the idea does make sense!). And I'd love to see a proportional voting system in place (STV seems to be a good system or even a mixed system)