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 @BC8DL6C from Colorado  agreed…3mos3MO

one rep has to speak for about 760,000 people which is so many people. If we have more reps then each one can focus on fewer people and understand their problems better.

 @BC8DVDN from North Carolina  disagreed…3mos3MO

Uncapping the House of Representatives goes directly against fundamental values of the founding fathers. If you don't like it, move.

 @BC86HMN from Virginia  disagreed…3mos3MO

Uncapping the House optimizes for a single metric—people per representative—while likely degrading legislative efficiency, strengthening leadership control, and intensifying polarization. A reform agenda that targets incentives and district design offers a higher return with fewer systemic costs.

 @BDSBP5K from California  disagreed…1mo1MO

the house of reps is already a large mess of people. the amount of reps we have off population already makes sense and adding more would create even bigger chaos and commotion during session for bills, and more.

 @BDKFF9P from South Carolina  disagreed…1mo1MO

because we need to stop having so many old men who have the same views as government officials from the 1800s

 @BCXSHTH from Virginia  disagreed…2mos2MO

we have been making new rules for 200 years, and thats all we do. I say remove the house Representatives

 @BCTCSYQ from Pennsylvania  disagreed…2mos2MO

Saying yes to uncapping the House of Representatives means the Government has to pay the Representatives more money than today. Not only that, but there will be power shifts within the House of Representatives. Peoples influence will decrease, which means your opinions could be drowned out by the overwhelming numbers.

 @BCSH7XF from Missouri  disagreed…2mos2MO

Increasing the 435-seat limit is that it would likely destroy the House’s ability to act as a functional, deliberative body, creating massive chaos and slow legislation while paradoxically empowering party leadership over rank-and-file member

 @BCNHD4L from Texas  disagreed…3mos3MO

At one point there would be too many people and differing opinions to properly make a choice, the entire point of the house was to represent the people in a number that was small enough to actually make decisions.

 @BCFG39X from Georgia  disagreed…3mos3MO

We’re a 2 party system, uncapping it would cause chaos with no organization of a thought-out plan and would create a multi-party system

 @BC9C7W7 from Alaska  disagreed…3mos3MO

If they keep adding seats it'll get out of hand quite fast so it would be better to allocate seats and move them around at some point there would be a unreasonable amount.

 @BDLZ4MZDemocrat from Arizona  disagreed…1mo1MO

With a greater amount of total seats, gerrymanders with larger effects are possible. Just one city could represent dozens of representatives in the House, and the total diversity of representation would be diminished.

 @BD8TH7B from Texas  disagreed…2mos2MO

The House of Representatives still properly represents all the states and their populations there is no good reason to uncap

 @BCNKZC2 from Missouri  disagreed…3mos3MO

If we allow the limits to be raised or removed, then inequality will occur rapidly, which is easy to subject to manipulation.

 @BCKC4KC from Connecticut  disagreed…3mos3MO

As it is right now the HOR doesn't get anything done so Uncaping the House will just add more people to the gridlock. What we need is proproptional voting and term limits.

 @BDT4JTK from Connecticut  disagreed…4wks4W

If you increase the capacity of uncapping the US House of Reps, it can increase the gridlock within the legislative branch if there are just more people. Alongside, that there would just be a battle between the two main parties over legislation and debate (Democrats v Republicans).

 @BDRBQ55 from Pennsylvania  disagreed…1mo1MO

When it comes to control and a party is in power they always vote the same vote and never have a differing opinion, for example the epstein vote, democrats voted for complete showing with no censorship, while some voted to have some censorship, while almost every republican voted yes on censorship. Also, having it uncapped means that even anyone can join, even common people who make their way up.

 @9XB7NSR  from Wisconsin  agreed…3mos3MO

According to the Constitution, each representative was originally supposed to represent no more than 30,000 constituents. This figure today would put the House of Representatives near 11,000 members. I would agree that 11,000 Representatives is too much, but our current number of 435 is so ludicrously far off that I would argue we should raise the number of seats.

 @BF4YVRG from Illinois  disagreed…4 days4D

Too many representatives would create a political gridlock at too many corners, and is ricky in times where immediate action is needed.

 @BF56GDN from Florida  disagreed…4 days4D

It's unnecessary, confusing for the average person to calculate, and leaves room for exploitation due to gerrymandering as that allows for laws to basically be bought if you have enough money.

 @BF5F67H from Florida  disagreed…3 days3D

Yes, increasing the size of the House could make congress more expensive, less efficient, and harder to manage, leading to slower decision making and more political gridlock

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