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Pessimistic Antineutrino
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« on: March 01, 2014, 02:05:19 PM »

We need to expand the size of the House.  Right now the average Congressional district is 700k.  No one person is capable of representing a group that large effectively because it is too diverse.  We're also beginning to see the concentration of representation in the hands of just a few states.  Personally, I think the House should double in size over the next couple of decades.

I don't see how the last point is true.  If representation was concentrated in a few states then New York and California would be controlling everything, but they're not.

Even Texas, which has a lot of seats and is in the majority party isn't controlling much.  It seems like key legislation on a lot of legislation is coming from a diverse group of representatives from smaller states.

Besides, even if that point is true, there's no point trying to alleviate it. That's why we have the Senate.
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