2 U.S.C. § 2b — Number of Representatives from each State in 78th and subsequent Congresses

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Starting with the 78th Congress, each state gets the number of Representatives listed in the statement Congress received on January 8, 1941. That number, based on the "method of equal proportions," stays in place — with no state getting fewer than one — until a new apportionment law changes it.

Starting with the Seventy-eighth Congress and every Congress after that, each state is entitled to the number of Representatives shown in the statement transmitted to Congress on January 8, 1941. That statement was based on the "method of equal proportions." This allotment stays in effect until a later statute, or a new apportionment under section 2a of this title, changes it. No state can get fewer than one Representative.

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Each State shall be entitled, in the Seventy-eighth and in each Congress thereafter until the taking effect of a reapportionment under a subsequent statute or section 2a of this title, to the number of Representatives shown in the statement transmitted to the Congress on January 8, 1941, based upon the method known as the method of equal proportions, no State to receive less than one Member.

Source credit: (Nov. 15, 1941, ch. 470, § 2(a), 55 Stat. 762.)

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1941Enacted · Act of Nov. 15, 1941, ch. 470 · 55 Stat. 762

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