You’re linking an entire long and insightful article that precisely explains why the number of representatives was capped and that never once mentions that it was because of physical office space - and yet your takeaway is that it was capped because America ran out of office space for its representatives.
Maybe you should work on your reading comprehension?
Can you point out where you’re seeing the cap based on space? I read your article and it looks like it was capped due to the 1929 Permanent Apportionment Act.
In fact, until the House was capped at 435 seats2 by the 1929 Permanent Apportionment Act, each apportionment period was regularly accompanied by clashes over how to best divvy up political power in Congress — including the size of the House.
Wow.
You’re linking an entire long and insightful article that precisely explains why the number of representatives was capped and that never once mentions that it was because of physical office space - and yet your takeaway is that it was capped because America ran out of office space for its representatives.
Maybe you should work on your reading comprehension?
It’s capped because they ran out of seats in the chamber…
My point is that there’s finate space. And they won’t add more.
Which is why the vast majority of house reps have their offices in an adjoining building.
Why do you think there’s just a bunch of empty offices no one are using in the Capitol Building?
Can you point out where you’re seeing the cap based on space? I read your article and it looks like it was capped due to the 1929 Permanent Apportionment Act.
No, it’s not.
Why don’t you just read the fucking article that you posted? You might learn something.