Let me see, House political make-up:
(1) 257 Democrats
(2) 178 Republicans
Total 435.
So to pass a simple majority of 218 is required.
Hummmmmm! Lets think about these Dems. Is it a strategy for any of them to be against it, to say give the citizens hope!
Time will tell.
My cousin who is in Ike Skelton’s district is now telling me that on the Lebanon Daily Record blog that he’s now a no. She told me that he changes with the wind, really old fart who is absolutely hiding from his constituents, but used be the man about town, willing to talk to anyone about anything. Now, he’s tried to go with the national party, but his constituents are really pissed.
I sometimes wonder if the Reapportionment Act should be repealed and the one representative per 40,000 people that was considered during the Constitutional Convention be made the law. Get rid of the 435 member cap. I think that would bring the number up to about 8000? They could hold sessions in a coliseum and the shear size of the House would make this type of deal making, arm twisting nearly impossible. It may in fact paralyze them so bad that they couldn’t case more harm.
On top of that limit the number of aides they get to a handful each and you would assure they are hog tied.
Set their pay at the median national income level and you would never need to consider term limits.