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Washington Times: Pelosi’s husband buys $5 million in chip stocks before Senate vote on chip subsidy bill . "Mr. Pelosi purchased roughly $5 million, or 20,000 shares of Nvidia, last month ... The purchase comes on the heels of a vote next week ... that would shore up the U.S. computer chip man...

In his article about our massively oversized congressional districts, Professor Swofford sums it up quite well: “ members of Congress tend to be more like other members of Congress rather than more like their constituents ”. That’s the problem: The Representatives rarely resemble their constituents!...

My view is that in the absence of Article the first , Congress would be constitutionally compelled to select the House size that results in congressional district sizes with the least amount of variation in their sizes. This is explained here: Achieving One-Person-One-Vote equality in the federal Ho...

OpenSecrets.org: "Unprecedented $1 billion first quarter lobbying haul puts 2022 on track for record year"

Read about the The Founders’ proposal for a much larger House of Representatives.

I just stumbled across this paper from 2011: One Person, One Vote, 435 Seats: Interstate Malapportionment and Constitutional Requirements Is Our Constitutional Order Broken - Structural and Doctrinal Questions in Constitutional Law: Gerrymandering, Congressional Representation, and Trust in the Poli...

National Review: Ben Sasse Calls for Repealing 17th Amendment, Eliminating Popular-Vote Senate Elections (September 2020)

Brookings.edu : Proxy voting turns one: The past, present and future of remote voting in the House (May 2021) "Alongside these uses of proxy voting as a workplace accommodation are several examples where members of both parties cast votes by proxy but were reported to be engaging in other acti...

Forbes.com: U.S. National Debt Surpasses $30 Trillion: What This Means For You (Feb 2022)

"But as unfathomable as this number is, the national debt can impact ordinary Americans’ lives."

OpenSecrets.org: Racial and gender diversity in the 117th Congress (June 2020)

The reason for insufficient diversity: "the sky-high reelection rate of members of Congress".

Statista.com: How Diverse is U.S. Congress? (January 2021)

The Atlantic: Republicans Discover the Horror of Gerrymandering (February 2022)

"The GOP learns what it’s like to be on the losing side of a redistricting power grab."

AmericanProgress.org : How Partisan Gerrymandering Limits Voting Rights (July 2020) "Districts should be drawn so that people who have been underrepresented throughout American history — such as African American, Latinx, and other communities of color — are fully represented in Congress and st...

AmericanProgress.org: The Impact of Partisan Gerrymandering (Oct 2019)

"The impacts of gerrymandering are comparable to switching the majority of votes in 22 states."

Poltifact article: Do congressional incumbents rarely face challengers and almost always win despite low approval ratings? (January 2016)

It appears that both Democratic and Republican Congress members have profited from insider trading ahead of the Russia-Ukraine war, according to this report from Jesse Watters, who observes that "It doesn't matter what party you belong to, the role of the People's House is to protect us, not me...

... I recently decided to see what the House size would be based on each U.S. census if the same proposed pattern in Article the First were continued... Given your analysis and interest in math, you will want to download & read " The Minimum and Maximum Size of the U. S. House of Represent...

Have you heard of petitions.whitehouse.gov. Dave, supporters have posted petitions at Whitehouse.gov - for example this one , there may be more. (Their site has apparently been turned off during this government "shutdown".) Also, see the posting in this forum about another petition. I bel...

There is a petition to sign now. It's at MoveOn.org.... isn't that a liberal website? I consider myself a conservative, but this cause is definitely cross-parties. I just signed that petition. Thank you for letting us know about it. You are correct: Representational enlargement is a truly non-parti...

Unfortunately, far too few people are even aware of the problem of oversized congressional districts and the oligarchy of 435, let alone the solution (as intended by "Article the first" of the Bill of Rights). With so few people who understand the problem or the solution, we are a long way...

Douglas,I appreciate your comments. we might seek out a gifted cartoonist or animator to tell the story. Explaining the need for smaller congressional districts, as well as the fascinating history of Article the first , could best be done via a series of compelling short videos that have the qualiti...

Apparently the Supreme Court refused to receive the case. That is disappointing. Regretfully, I did not delve into this particular case as I wanted to, but I will when I can. I do want to understand the CT ratification and the other assertions made. SCOTUS did the same thing in Clemons et al. v. U....

Talk has been made of not "housing" the body in one central place. 3. I would like to know how this large body will not end up entangled in argument? They are "entangled in argument" now. They would be entangled in argument if there were only 100 of them (see the Senate). That i...

What about continuing to allow the citizens to vote for their Senators, and removing the corruptive MONEY from public elections? Public Offices should not be for PRIVATE gain. Money will never be removed from the process. There is no way to eliminate money without eliminating freedom of speech - SC...

Marcia, I moved this topic to start its own thread. As you know, some of those proposals I agree with, and some I do not. And some of the ones I agree with can probably be better implemented through legislation rather than a constitutional amendment. I don't want to get into specifics, other than to...