Imagining a more representative House
by Chris Wilson
Nov 12, 2018
2 minutes
INTENSE SPECULATION OVER WHO WILL win control of the House of Representatives on Nov. 6 papers over a troubling reality: the chamber is an embarrassment to democracy. And not just because of gerrymandering, dark money and so forth. It’s because there aren’t nearly enough seats to go around.
For its first 130 years or so, Congress regularly expanded the size of the House from its
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