SEC. 3. TREATMENT OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AS CON-
GRESSIONAL DISTRICT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the District of Columbia shall be considered 
a Congressional district for purposes of representation in 
the House of Representatives. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO AP-
PORTIONMENT OF MEMBERS OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
TIVES.— 
(1) INCLUSION OF SINGLE DISTRICT OF COLUM-
BIA MEMBER IN REAPPORTIONMENT OF MEMBERS 
AMONG STATES.—Section 22 of the Act entitled ‘‘An 
Act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent de-
cennial censuses and to provide for apportionment of 
Representatives in Congress’’, approved June 28, 
1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a), is amended by adding at the 
end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(d) This section shall apply with respect to the Dis-
trict of Columbia in the same manner as this section ap-
plies to a State, except that the District of Columbia may 
not receive more than one Member under any reapportion-
ment of Members.’’. 
(2)
CLARIFICATION
OF
DETERMINATION
OF 
NUMBER OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS ON BASIS OF 
23RD
AMENDMENT.—Section 3 of title 3, United 
States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘come into of-
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fice;’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘come into office 
(subject to the twenty-third article of amendment to 
the Constitution of the United States in the case of 
the District of Columbia);’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS REGARDING AP-
POINTMENTS TO SERVICE ACADEMIES.— 
(1) UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY.—Sec-
tion 4342 of title 10, United States Code, is amend-
ed— 
(A) in subsection (a), by striking para-
graph (5); and 
(B) in subsection (f), by striking ‘‘the Dis-
trict of Columbia,’’. 
(2) UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY.—Such 
title is amended— 
(A) in section 6954(a), by striking para-
graph (5); and 
(B) in section 6958(b), by striking ‘‘the 
District of Columbia,’’. 
(3) UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY.— 
Section 9342 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(A) in subsection (a), by striking para-
graph (5); and 
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(B) in subsection (f), by striking ‘‘the Dis-
trict of Columbia,’’. 
(4) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This subsection and the 
amendments made by this subsection shall take ef-
fect on the date on which a Representative from the 
District of Columbia takes office for the One Hun-
dred Tenth Congress. 
SEC. 4. INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP OF HOUSE OF REP-
RESENTATIVES. 
(a) PERMANENT INCREASE IN NUMBER OF MEM-
BERS.—Effective with respect to the One Hundred Tenth 
Congress and each succeeding Congress, the House of 
Representatives shall be composed of 437 Members, in-
cluding any Members representing the District of Colum-
bia pursuant to section 3(a). 
(b) REAPPORTIONMENT OF MEMBERS RESULTING 
FROM INCREASE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 22(a) of the Act en-
titled ‘‘An Act to provide for the fifteenth and subse-
quent decennial censuses and to provide for appor-
tionment of Representatives in Congress’’, approved 
June 28, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a(a)), is amended by 
striking ‘‘the then existing number of Representa-
tives’’ and inserting ‘‘the number of Representatives 
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