I'm emailing my Congressman everyday about this one issue

Dear Representative Mann,

I am writing as a constituent to urge you to consider supporting legislation to expand, or “uncap,” the U.S. House of Representatives by increasing the number of members.

The House was designed to be the people’s chamber, yet today each Representative serves far more constituents than the Founders ever intended. When the House was capped at 435 members in 1913, the U.S. population was about 92 million. Today it is more than 330 million. As a result, each Representative now speaks for roughly three to four times as many people as their early 20th-century counterparts. This has made genuine representation more difficult, distanced citizens from their elected officials, and weakened public trust in Congress.

Uncapping the House would directly address this problem. Smaller districts would allow Representatives to better know their constituents, conduct more meaningful oversight, and more effectively advocate for local concerns. It would also reduce the disproportionate influence of money in politics by lowering the cost of campaigning and making grassroots engagement more viable.

Importantly, expanding the House is not a radical idea. It aligns with the original intent of the Constitution, which anticipated periodic growth in the size of the House as the nation expanded. In fact, the very first proposed constitutional amendment, promoted by George Washington himself and passed by Congress in 1789 but never ratified, would have established a formula for continual House expansion tied to population growth.

Finally, increasing the number of Representatives would make the Electoral College more representative and help rebalance power away from the executive branch by strengthening Congress as a deliberative body.

At a time when Americans across the political spectrum feel unheard and disconnected from Washington, expanding the House offers a practical, constitutional, and bipartisan reform to bring government closer to the people it serves.

Thank you for your time and for your service to Kansas. I hope you will give this issue serious consideration.

Respectfully,

Matt Beat

Kansas

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