A House Democrat this week introduced legislation that would take one of the least popular institutions in the nation – Congress – and make it bigger in the hopes of making it better.
Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) proposed a bill that would give 150 additional seats to the House. This would increase the number of House legislators from 435 to 585 by 2030. Blumenauer says more members of the House are needed because they currently represent too many people – nearly 800,000 on average – which is making it…
