If The US Senate Were Apportioned Like The House

If The US Senate Were Apportioned Like The House

As Mitch McConnell geared up to filibuster a symbolic toothless The Surge Is Kinda Bad resolution, I contemplated the US Senate and its all states are equal math.

Every State Gets Two Senators is the only remaining unamendable clause in the Constitution (the other was no interference with the slave trade till 1808) so discussion is moot. But I just got the sense that a disproportionate number of very small states have two Republican Senators, and California has two Democrats.

So, what is the Senate were apportioned like the house? How's the math look? California has 53 House seats and two Democratic Senators, credit the Dems with 53 seats. Wyoming has one House seat and two GOP Senators, so credit the GOP with one. Florida: 25 House seats, one Dem and one Republican Senator, that equals 12.5 seats for each.

Run the math all the way through and you get a population-apportioned Senate of 247.5 Democrats, 184.5 Republicans, 2 and a half Liebermans and half a Bernie Sanders. Even more Democratic than the actual House.

But that's just a nice fantasy. Without 60 votes, and with even Republicans who question the war valuing party loyalty more than their own doubts and their own constituents, even symbolic gestures are impossible.

Is this going to be up to Pelosi and the House Democrats?