U.S. population keeps growing, but House of Representatives is same size as in Taft era (www.pewresearch.org)

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The U.S. House of Representatives has one voting member for every 747,000 or so Americans. That’s by far the highest population-to-representative ratio among a peer group of industrialized democracies, and the highest it’s been in U.S. history.

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