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Default Light Bulbs are getting Expensive / New Tax

Jim Yanik wrote:
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The House grows according to population;seems proper.


The only constitutional rule relating to the size of the House says "The
Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand."

Congress regularly increased the size of the House after the census to
account for growth but fixed the size of the House at 435 seats in 1911.

While theoretically could revoke/revise that law, since then all that
has been done is to reapportion seats based on relative populations
after the official census.

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