On March 13, the US House Committee on Oversight and Governmental Reform passed the bill to expand the size of the US House from 435 to 437 members. The District of Columbia would get one of the new seats, and Utah would get the other (at least until after the 2011 census). Now the bill goes to the House Judiciary Committee. The vote in the Oversight Committee was 24 to 5 in favor, with 6 Republicans voting in favor along with all Democrats.
This is totally Unconstitutional and a bad idea.It is time we start voting those representatives out of office that do not uphold the Constitution
The only unconstitutional part is the DC Representative, the Constitution states “Article 1 Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states,…..The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand”
The Constitution also says that the “Article 1 Section 8 clause 17 …District (not exceeding ten miles square)…the seat of the government of the United States”
Currently DC is 68 square miles; If we return 58 square miles to Maryland, that solves the voting problem.