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handle is hein.crs/govejfi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional ____ .Research Service The Federal Role in Apportionment and Congressional Redistricting: CRS Resources October 26, 2022 This Insight is part of a series of podcast episodes and accompanyingwritten products on elections and campaign finance policy. Congressional staff can access the podcast episode on this topic at this link. For other episodes in the series, see CRS Insight IN12037, Elections and Campaign Finance Policy: A CRS Podcost Series, by Karen L Shanton. Most U.S. House districts are adjusted at least once every 10 years to reflect shifts in the population. New districts are a product of apportionment, or reallocation of House seats among states; and redistricting, or redrawing of House district boundaries within states. This Insight explores the current, past, and possible future roles of the federal government in these processes. It briefly summarizes each role, with links to CRS products that contain more detailed information. For more on apportionment and redistricting in general, see CRS Report R45951, Apportionment and Redistricting Process for the U.S. House of Representatives, by Sarah J. Eckman. Current Role The federal government plays two main roles in the apportionment and redistricting processes: (1) providing population data for use in the processes through the Census Bureau, and (2) setting federal parameters for the processes through the Constitution, federal statutes, and federal court interpretations of constitutional and statutory provisions. The Department of Justice (DOJ) also provides enforcement of certain federal parameters. Census Bureau The allocation of House seats among states is based on the apportionment population, which includes state resident and overseas population counts collected by the Census Bureau in the decennial census. The Census Bureau also provides additional data for use in redistricting on state request. Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN12038 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Membersand Committeesof Congress

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