Articles
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“We need the dynamism, flexibility and elasticity. By fixing the House, we can break gridlock — and then we can start to fix other things. Bigger is better."
Danielle Allen, Washington Post
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“Expanding the House of Representatives would actually make it more representative."
Jay Cost, The Dispatch
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“expanding the House is one of the more straightforward reforms that leaders in Washington could pursue in our era of polarized politics."
Geoffrey Skelley, Five Thirty Eight
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"We need a larger legislative body to limit government corruption while allowing more factions to balance our diverse society. We must give power to the powerless and representation to the unrepresented. We must uncap the House of Representatives."
Jeff Mayhugh, The Blaze
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"Adding 495 more seats wouldn’t only benefit the nation — it would make Congress fun again."
CHRIS WILSON, Time
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" it’s an essential first step in making the “People’s House” — and American government broadly — more reflective of American society today."
New York Times, The Editorial Board
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"the U.S. [representation] ratio is the highest among the 35 nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, most of them highly developed, democratic states."
Drew DeSilver, Pew Research Center.
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"a larger House would be far more responsive to the needs of individual constituents."
David Litt, The Atlantic
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"the very structure of our government undercuts its true democratic potential. To return the People’s House to the people, to make the House work again, it must be expanded."
ISRAEL “IZZY” KLEIN, The Hill
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"by taking a bold step toward democratizing our democracy, we could remind ourselves that the Constitution is in our hands and the burden of self-government rests on our shoulders. We are not powerless, and sometimes the status quo need not hold. "
Thomas Koenig, The Dispatch
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The Case for Enlarging the House of Representatives
“Our modeling shows that the expansion of the House need not be a partisan enterprise. Neither party would stand to gain significantly from expansion. The biggest beneficiaries would be the American people.”