# January 6th Hearing-Adjacent Discussion Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 12, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829 "2022-07-12T16:20:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 556
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/556 "2022-11-03T21:22:38Z")
> [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](#): > > Part of the problem we see now came with the **Apportionment Act of 1929** when the number of Representatives was fixed at 435, regardless of population. With growing population, something needed to be done, but the chamber was originally designed to give “the people” a voice comparable to that of the State (which is represented by Senators). Its actually not really that large an effect, and increasing the congressional caucus by 33% to give Wyoming a full congressman won’t solve it. It will just shift around the discrepancy. The real problem is with the Senate. I had a long back and forth about this with Little\_Nemo in the thread linked below. > [@The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929: yes or no?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-permanent-apportionment-act-of-1929-yes-or-no/940815/82): > > Truth be told, whether or not we use the Wyoming rule or not it all pretty much comes out in the wash, which I think may have been YamatoTwinkies point. Any division of the states into integer numbers of representatives is going to result in winners and losers, and those winners and losers are going to be concentrated among the less populated states because rounding errors are a larger proportion of the overall representation. Under the current system, the big winner is actually Montana, which… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829)._