Why has the House of Representatives grown so much faster than the Senate?

The House represents people according to population, so its size has increased as the U.S. population has grown. The Senate, by contrast, has two senators from each state, so its size changes only when new states join the Union. The Constitution does not require the number of representatives to increase every decade, and re-election rates do not determine the House’s size.

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