• Determining Apportionment
• Adding Voting Members
• Reapportioning
• Apportionment by State

Reapportioning

Presently the U.S. Census Bureau must deliver the results of a decennial census to the President of the United States within nine months of the census date. Within a week of the opening of the next Congress, the President is required by law to report the census results to the Clerk of the House. Within 15 days, the Clerk must then disclose to the governor of each state how many seats his or her state is entitled. The state legislatures are charged with redrawing a state’s congressional districts. Apportionments take affect two Congresses (three years) after the last census. The last (22nd) Census was conducted on April 1, 2000 and apportionment took effect for the 108th Congress (2003-2005).  For more information, see the United States Census Bureau website.

Double desk, 1867. Reconfigured, original design by Thomas Walter.Anonymous Loan to the U.S. House of Representatives