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BumRushDaShow

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3. "If it isn't based on the Census, then why have a Census, period?"

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 10, 2025, 08:11 AM

Sep 10

It's to determine HOW MANY seats each state will be allocated and after that, they have left it up to the states to divvy that up within their own borders.

The Apportionment Act of 1911 set the size at 433 and added 2 more by 1913 (with the addition of AZ & NM).

The Reapportionment Act of 1929 clarified and finalized how the Census would be used to do this.

What we really need to do is INCREASE the size of the House.

We have been at 435 since 1913. The 1910 Census listed the U.S. with ~92 million. The current U.S. population is about 340 million, which is over 3.5 times the size.

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