Expanding the U.S. House of Representatives - A Radical Old Idea

America’s Founding Fathers intended that the House of Representatives would grow as the population grew - and for more than a century, it did. Then, in 1929, Congress capped the size of the House at 435 members. Since then, the American population has tripled.
In this virtual event, Danielle Allen, Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Congressman Derek Kilmer, Yuval Levin, Norm Ornstein, and Pete Peterson discuss why increasing the number of representatives in the House is crucial to the health of our Democracy and what it will take to restore the Founders’ vision for the First Branch.
The recommendation to Enlarge the House of Representatives was included in the American Academy’s report, Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century.
www.amacad.org/ourcommonpurpose