>> I just surfed through some of the earlier threads
>> on Puerto Rico in shwi, and I wanted a point that
>> I found in some past threads clarified.  What happens
>> to the U.S. House of Representatives?  Do they get
>> six more added or do they take six away from
>> somewhere else?  If six are deleted from elsewhere
>> how does this happen and when?  Who decides how
>> to redraw the boundaries?

> In 1911 Congress capped the number at 435 voting members of the House of
> Representatives, to increase the number either temporarily until the next
> census or permanently they would need to simply pass a new law with the new
> number and specify if the change is temporary or permanent.  See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apportionment_Act_of_1911

> The subsequent act of 1941 made redistricting and reapportionment automatic
> after each census instead of requiring a new law each decade.  Presumably
> when Congress admits Puerto Rico they will have to give them representation
> commensurate with their population, else they will be in violation of the
> equal representation standard for the House.  Personally I think they should
> just add the seats to the house chamber, it has been frozen at 435 for a
> hundred years now and the population of the country has quadrupled in that
> time so each of us only has one quarter as much influence on our
> representatives as our ancestors had.