About the bill
Contrary to the Steve Martin and Queen Latifah film title, this legislation would be bringing up the House.
Context
The whole point of a bicameral Congress, featuring both the Senate and the House of Representatives, is to simultaneously serve two types of interests.
The former is intended to serve larger and (usually) more ideologically diverse groups: namely, entire states. The latter is intended to represent smaller and (now, usually) more ideologically homogeneous groups: specific districts. In this way, the House in theory is supposed to be closer to individual constituents and communities.
To accomplish this goal, when the U.S. was first founded, the Constitution mandated that a House of Representatives district couldn’t be larger than 30 thousand people. Each House member served a number of constituents akin to a …
Sponsor and status
118th Congress (2023–2025)
Introduced on Jan 31, 2023
This bill is in the first stage of the legislative process. It was introduced into Congress on January 31, 2023. It will typically be considered by committee next before it is possibly sent on to the House or Senate as a whole.
Other activity may have occurred on another bill with identical or similar provisions.
2 Cosponsors (2 Democrats)
Position statements
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Introduced
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H.R. 643 is a bill in the United States Congress.
A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law.
Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 643. This is the one from the 118th Congress.
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