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Offline sonofdaxjones

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Increasing number of seats in House of Reps
« on: June 28, 2019, 09:16:12 AM »
The House of Reps has remained almost wholly unchanged since 1930, except for a period when Alaska and Hawaii were allowed a minimum of 2 reps as they entered the union.

As the population grows the ratio of rep to people expands, it's obviously at its highest ever and will continue at that pace barring expansion or substantial depopulation (which some radical LibDerps hope for, not them of course)

Or . . . the break up of the United States which some LibDerp residents on this board hope for.   


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Re: Increasing number of seats in House of Reps
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2019, 01:07:22 PM »
Thank you for the informative post. Did you have a question, dad?
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Re: Increasing number of seats in House of Reps
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2019, 01:12:35 PM »
The House must be expanded. We need local representation.

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Re: Increasing number of seats in House of Reps
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2019, 02:12:20 PM »
Write-in vote for breaking up the united states.

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Re: Increasing number of seats in House of Reps
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2019, 05:33:59 PM »
Thank you for the informative post. Did you have a question, dad?

I thought this exact same thing when I saw this earlier :lol:  like was he looking for any additional input or was that like, the whole thread.
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Increasing number of seats in House of Reps
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2019, 07:14:40 AM »
The Big Dummy and 8kindsofDumbass, expand the HOR or not?

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Re: Increasing number of seats in House of Reps
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2019, 07:21:51 AM »
Hyperbolic partisan duplicitous hypocrite

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Re: Increasing number of seats in House of Reps
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2019, 08:37:23 AM »
The Big ChooChoo and 8manpick, expand the HOR or not?
Thanks for the question dad. I think it could be expanded, but to what end? Should it be the same proportion as it was in 1929? That would be a shitload of representatives. I'm pretty fine with keeping it where we are I think. I don't know that it is necessary to have hyper-localized federal representaion.

Should definitely give DC a senator though
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Re: Increasing number of seats in House of Reps
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2019, 12:54:04 PM »
I’d be ok with a shitload of reps.