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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2797 
To establish a commission to study and develop proposals for expanding 
the House of Representatives, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 9, 2025 
Ms. STEVENS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To establish a commission to study and develop proposals 
for expanding the House of Representatives, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘House Expansion 
Commission Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) For nearly a century, the number of mem-
bers of the House of Representatives has been set at 
the 1929 cap of 435 members. 
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(2) The number of constituents represented by 
each member of the House of Representatives has 
dramatically increased since the number of members 
of the House of Representatives was arbitrarily 
capped in 1929. 
(3) The 1929 cap on the number of members 
of the House of Representatives was instituted when 
the United States population was 123 million. Since 
then, the United States population has tripled to 
about 346 million which means the average congres-
sional district now represents nearly 800,000 con-
stituents, according to data from the Bureau of the 
Census. 
(4) With current population growth estimates, 
the average congressional district could have ap-
proximately 829,000 constituents by 2050. 
(5) A growing movement in Congress, and in 
think tanks, seeks to increase the number of mem-
bers of the House of Representatives to increase 
public access to members, improve diversity, and en-
hance Member ability to serve their constituents. 
(6) Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) 
introduced House bill 622, the Restoring Equal and 
Accountable Legislators in the House Act, in the 
One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, which would 
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add 150 seats to the House of Representatives, in-
creasing it to 585 members. 
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT. 
There is established a commission to be known as the 
‘‘U.S. House of Representatives Expansion Commission’’ 
(in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Commission’’). 
SEC. 4. DUTIES OF COMMISSION. 
(a) STUDY.—The Commission shall study— 
(1) the current size of the membership of the 
House of Representatives considering— 
(A) the correlation between the current 
size of the House and fair representation and 
efficacy; and 
(B) whether an expanded House of Rep-
resentatives can better serve Congress’ core Ar-
ticle 1 function; 
(2) the option of a one-time expansion com-
pared to the feasibility of recurring expansions; 
(3) the so called ‘‘Cube Root Law’’, ‘‘Wyoming 
Rule’’, and other relevant methods to increase the 
size of the House of Representatives; 
(4) the cost implications and practical chal-
lenges to the House of Representatives associated 
with expanding the number of members of the 
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