{"id":13058,"date":"2011-01-24T15:36:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T15:36:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-01-24T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T15:36:43","slug":"growing-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/24\/growing-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times had an <a href=https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/24\/opinion\/24conley.html>op-ed<\/a> this morning arguing for a larger House of Representatives, something several of us here have argued for doing, with many of the same arguments. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This disparity increases the influence of lobbyists and special interests: the more constituents one has, the easier it is for money to outshine individual voices. And it means that representatives have a harder time connecting with the people back in their districts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The California legislature can also be improved with smaller districts. &nbsp;How can a state senator honestly expect to represent 900,000 constituents?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>True, more members means more agendas, legislation and debates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I actually disagree with this. &nbsp;In an earlier discussion I came up with what I felt was a viable solution: &nbsp;The House is responsible for its own rules, so it can create a system where there is something like a House Steering Committee, which is a selection of representatives from the house, that functions similarly to how the house functions at present. &nbsp;The difference is that this HSC handles all the debate, amendment, etc, (post responsible committee) and when settled, recommends the bill to a full house vote, up or down, with no amendment or debate. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times had an <a href=https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/24\/opinion\/24conley.html>op-ed<\/a> this morning arguing for a larger House of Representatives, something several of us here have argued for doing, with many of the same arguments. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This disparity increases the influence of lobbyists and special interests: the more constituents one has, the easier it is for money to outshine individual voices. And it means that representatives have a harder time connecting with the people back in their districts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The California legislature can also be improved with smaller districts. &nbsp;How can a state senator honestly expect to represent 900,000 constituents?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2826,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1215,190,4131],"class_list":["post-13058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1215","tag-190","tag-4131"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3oC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}