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Speak Up! - View Question #638 |
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Question: How many members are in the House sentatives of Representatives?
Answer: The House of Representatives has 435 members comprised of representatives from state districts that include around 600,000 people within the district borders (approximate 2000 US Census numbers). This means that states with higher populations, such as California and Texas, have many more congressman in the House than sparsely populated states such as Wyoming and Alaska. The Senate, however, is composed of two senators from each state so that every state is equally represented, no matter what the population of that state is.
There are also 5 non-voting members of the House of Representatives, called Delegates. They come from American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
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On 01/20/04
Louis from MI said:
the senate is separate from the house
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On 12/10/03
Michelle from TX said:
How many Texas Representatives are there today.
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On 12/04/03
Shy from WY said:
How many reps. do Wyoming have????
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On 11/18/03
Ben from PA said:
No, representation in the house is based solely on population. This has no direct link to economy or education, although those staes with higher populations would naturally have a larger economy. Simply, the more people a state has the more people it can have in Congress, which makes sense. Each representative represents the same number of people. The number of represntatives alltoed to each state can change every 10 years, when the federal governmetn counts the people living in the state (which changes all the time). This "counting" is called a census.
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On 11/05/03
Janie from AZ said:
how many of these members are form florida?
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