Yates, Hon. Sidney R., a Representative in Congress from the State 66 Effect on State delegations of increases in the membership of the House of Representatives: 1960 Expenditures and applicable receipts of public enterprise funds_ History of contiguity, compactness, and population of congres- Independent Offices Budget authorizations and expenditures, List of bills taken from the index to the Digest of Public General 139 162 Membership in House of Representatives, by States, at adoption Redistricting bills. 138 Section of priority list for apportionment from 426 to 547 Mem- Justice, Department of, letters of August 24, 1961. House Judiciary Subcommittee No. 3 staff memos: Changes in existing law made by H.R. 8075.. Enlarging and redistricting House. Reasons in support of 453 seats.. Some reasons against increasing the membership of the House... Stated reasons for increasing the size of the House... Library of Congress, The, Legislative Reference Service, letter, August Memorandums: 121, 122 68 Apportionment of membership in the House of Representatives__ 177 182 190 Report of National Academy of Sciences Committee on Appor- 188 Steps in computing an apportionment. 187 Montgomery County Republican Committee, Norristown, Pa., letter, 113 113 24 215 Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania, resolution adopted by, with affidavit of August 26, 1961. Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 4 (Nelson) Title 2, United States Code sections 2 and 2a. INCREASING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND REDISTRICTING CONGRES SIONAL DISTRICTS THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1961 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:30 o'clock, in room 346, Old House Office Building, Hon. Edwin E. Willis, chairman of the subcommittee, presiding. Mr. WILLIS. The subcommittee will please come to order. At these hearings we will consider 23 bills, 20 dealing with the matter of enlarging the House and 3 dealing with redistricting. The bills having to do with enlarging the membership are as follows: H.R. 1178, H.R. 1183, H.R. 1998, H.R. 2531, H.R. 2704, H.R. 2718, H.R. 2739, H.R. 2768, H.R. 2770, H.R. 2783, H.R. 3012, H.R. 3176, H.R. 3414, H.R. 3725, H.R. 3804, H.R. 3890, H.R. 4609, H.R. 6431, H.R. 7355, and House Joint Resolution 419. The 3 bills dealing with redistricting are: H.R. 8075, H.R. 8498, and H.R. 8616. (The bills referred to follow :) [H.R. 1178, 87th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To provide that the permanent membership of the House of Representatives shall be four hundred and fifty-three Members in the Eighty-eighth Congress and each Congress thereafter Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law and until otherwise provided by law, each apportionment under section 22 of the Act of June 18, 1929, as amended (2 U.S.C. 2b), or other provision of law, to determine the number of Representatives to which each State shall be entitled in the Eighty-eighth Congress and in each Congress thereafter, shall be made on the basis of a total membership of four hundred and fifty-three Members of the House of Representatives. [H.R. 1183, 87th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To provide that the House of Representatives shall be composed of four hundred and thirty-eight Members beginning with the Eighty-eighth Congress Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the Eighty-eighth Congress and in each Congress thereafter the House of Representatives shall be composed of four hundred and thirty-eight Members. SEC. 2. Subsection (a) of section 22 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide for apportionment of Representatives in Congress", approved June 18, 1929, as amended (2 U.S.C., 1 sec. 2a), is amended by striking out "the then existing number of Representatives" and inserting in lieu thereof "four hundred and thirty-eight Members of the House of Representatives". SEC. 3. (a) The statement transmitted to the Congress within the first week of the first regular session of the Eighty-seventh Congress by the President in accordance with subsection (a) of section 22 of the Act of June 18, 1929, as amended, and the certificates sent to the executives of the States in accordance with subsection (b) of such section 22 shall be of no force and effect for the purpose of effecting a reapportionment under such section 22 of such Act of June 18, 1929. (b) Within ninety days of the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall transmit to the Congress a statement prepared in accordance with the provisions of such Act of June 18, 1929, as amended by this Act, and such statement shall, for the purposes of such Act of June 18, 1929, be held and considered to be the statement submitted in accordance with the requirements of such Act for the apportionment of the Eighty-eighth and the four subsequent Congresses. [H.R. 1998, 87th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To provide that the House of Representatives shall be composed of four hundred and fifty Members, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 22(a) of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide for apportionment of Representatives in Congress", approved June 18, 1929, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "(a) (1) In the Eighty-seventh and each succeeding Congress the House of Representatives shall be composed of four hundred and fifty Members to be apportioned in the manner provided by this section. "(2) On or before June 30, 1961, and on the first day (or within one week thereafter) of the first regular session of the Ninety-first Congress and of each fifth Congress thereafter, the President shall transmit to the Congress a statement showing (A) the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed, as ascertained under the seventeenth and each subsequent decennial census of the population, and (B) the number of Representatives to which each State would be entitled under an apportionment of four hundred and fifty Representatives by the method known as the method of equal proportions, no State to receive less than one Member." SEC. 2. The minimum number of Representatives to which each State will be entitled, pursuant to the amendment made by the first section of this Act, on the basis of the eighteenth decennial census of the population, is as follows: Alabama, nine. Alaska, one. Arizona, two. Arkansas, six. California, thirty. Colorado, four. Connecticut, six. Delaware, one. Florida, eight. Georgia, ten. Hawaii, one. Idaho, two. Illinois, twenty-five. Indiana, eleven. Iowa, eight. Kansas, six. Kentucky, eight. Louisiana, eight. Maine, three. Maryland, seven. Massachusetts, fourteen, Michigan, eighteen, Minnesota, nine. Mississippi, six. |