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TFB-24-1-2024:

In the Tarpeian Forum

Date: (Month, Day, Year)

Mark Shubert

Augmenting Congressional Apportionment

Whereas concerns of representation in Congress of the US population has increased over the past century since the last Apportionment Act passed;

and, whereas an increase in the number of seats in both the House of Representatives and Senate will alleviate such concerns.

Therefore,

Section 1: The number of Senate seats per state will increase from two to three. Given the current total of 50 states there will be a total of 150 Senators.

Section 2: The number of House seats will be a ratio of 6-1 of the Senate seats. Given the new total of 150 Senators there will be a total of 900 House seats.

Section 3: The populated and organized territories of the US will include 1 non-voting House seat each along with the District of Columbia.

Section 4: Given the new number of House seats at 900 and Senators at 150, the total count for the electoral college will be 1,053; three electors from D.C. 527 electoral votes will be needed to win the Presidential election.