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handle is hein.crs/crsuntaaezi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS22579 January 24, 2007 CRS Report for Congress District of Columbia Representation: Effect on House Apportionment Royce Crocker Specialist in American National Government (Elections, Survey Research and Statistical Methodology) Government and Finance Summary Two proposals (H.R. 328 and H.R. 492) have been introduced in the 110th Congress. Both provide for voting representation in the U.S. House of Representatives for the residents of the District of Columbia, but in, fundamentally, different ways. H.R. 328, for purposes of voting representation, treats the District of Columbia as if it were a state; H.R. 492 adds the District's resident population to the state of Maryland for purposes of representation. Both proposals increase the size of the House to 437 members from 435. Both provide for a representative for D.C. residents (one via representation in a new Maryland seat). And both proposals would, essentially, provide an additional seat to the state of Utah over what it received in the 2002 apportionment. This report will be updated as conditions warrant. Background H.R. 328, the District of Columbia Fair and Equal House Voting Rights Act of 2007, provides for a permanent increase in the size of the U.S. House of Representatives, from 435 seats to 437 seats. It specifies that one of the seats is to be allocated to the District of Columbia while the other seat is to be assigned using the normal apportionment formula allocation procedure, which presently would result in Utah adding a fourth seat. In essence, H.R. 328 treats the District of Columbia as if it were a state for the purposes of the allocation of House seats. H.R. 492, the District of Columbia Voting Rights Restoration Act of 2007, also would permanently increase the size of the House to 437 seats. However, rather than treating the District of Columbia as a separate entity, H.R. 492 provides that, for the purposes of apportioning seats among the states, the District's population would be allocated to the state of Maryland and one of the Maryland seats would contain the District of Columbia. Under this proposal, District residents would receive representation in the U.S. House of Representatives via a new Maryland representative. The other seat would also go to Utah. Congressional Research Service w The Library of Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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