I can agree with a lot of those ideas, except one.

If anything, we should INCREASE the number of reps in Congress.

I know - it sounds LUDICROUS. That was my reaction when I heard it.

The argument goes this way: There's too much concentration of power. With the number of seats frozen at 435 + 100, with an increasing population, the power of one vote keeps getting diminished. This power continues to bet increasingly concentrated in more senior members who control the all-important committees.

Way Back When, there was one representative for something like 15,000 people. Now that same one rep has a constituency of over half a million.

This concentration of power is self-perpetuating. Because of a seat having so much power, more and more resources are spent in the election cycle, which takes us further and further away from the "temp job" that a Representative was supposed to be back in the days of the Founding Fathers.