Read an article about expanding the size of congress. Congress has 435 people in it as of right now and that has been the case since 1929. (the us population at that time was 121,700,000 which meant for every one congressmen there were 280,000 people.) Today, on average, for every one congressmen there are 689,600 people. In places like Montana there is only one congressmen for 900,000 people, but two in Rhode Island which is about 400,000 per a congressmen. This means Montanans are underrepresented.
Should we expand the US congress?
At the beginning of the nation, we had 67 congressmen each representing only 30,000. But for today's sake, why not we make it 300,000 or some where around there. That would mean we need to add about 1,000 more congressmen.
What do you think?
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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