Regarding the size of the House of Representatives...
Does the house have too much power or too little power?
What is the proper balance?
Should the size of the house be fixed at xx times the number of the senate?
Originally, representatives were about 2 1/2 times in number as senators
(65 vs 26)...
...now, it is 4 1/2 times in number (435 vs 100).
...now, to keep the original 2 1/2 to 1 ratio, it would translate to 250 representatives.
Should the size of the house be fixed by population size
(example: 1 rep per xxx # of citizens)?
Originally, representatives were 1 per 30,000 in population
...now, that would translate to 10,000 members in the house of representatives.
I’d prefer it be set by population. It’d scale upwards with each census.
As far as the Senate is concerned ... Id like to see a few States break up into smaller ones.
Ugh ... I am typing on my phone right now ... I will reply with more tomorrow when I’m on my PC (I hate typing on this thing) ...
I am commenting from the perspective that the big problem in DC are corrupt politicians ... As many have pointed out, we also need to reduce the number of bureaucrats.
Finally, Senate seats need to go back to appointment vs. this Democratic nonsense ... Governor term limits should help keep the turnover rate there fairly decent.
Also, if we would have a large House ... No exotic pay and benefits for all the new members :-).