{"id":712,"date":"2012-03-09T14:51:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T14:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=712"},"modified":"2012-03-09T14:51:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T14:51:54","slug":"10000-member-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/03\/09\/10000-member-house\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 member House?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s wrong with Congress? It&#8217;s not big enough<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/03\/09\/opinion\/flynn-expand-congress\/index.html?hpt=hp_t3\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/03\/09\/opinion\/flynn-expand-congress\/index.html?hpt=hp_t3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Man was I skeptical when I first read the title of the article!  However, I was taken in when I read this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA seat in the House of Representatives has gone from representing 33,000 people to more than 700,000 today.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course Gerrymandering (I discuss this a bit <a href=\"sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?s=Gerrymandering\">here<\/a>) is a critically important issue as well but I see huge parallels with the author&#8217;s idea that Representatives are not, after all, very representative.  I am not totally sure that gridlock would melt away if we had 3K (or 6K or 10K) Representatives as the Senate will remain as partisan as ever but I do agree that it would provide a wedge opening for third parties and with that many cats to herd it seems unlikely that a handful would wind up in more or less total control that we have now.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, nothing is likely to happen on this scale, but it is nice to fantasize about these things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s wrong with Congress? It&#8217;s not big enough http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/03\/09\/opinion\/flynn-expand-congress\/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 Man was I skeptical when I first read the title of the article! However, I was taken in when I read this: A seat in the House of Representatives has gone from representing 33,000 people to more than 700,000 today. Of course Gerrymandering (I discuss this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/03\/09\/10000-member-house\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;10,000 member House?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}