I didn’t know it was reduced. Any links or literature on that for my perusal?
Congress fixed the number of House members to an arbitrary 435 in 1929 or thereabouts.
Walter Williams wrote about it here: http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2008/10/15/political_monopoly_power
This group is trying actively seeking to return to those numbers: http://www.thirty-thousand.org/index.htm