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Recent Examples of reapportionment
Florida and Texas have been gaining seats for a few decades, while New York has been losing seats over each reapportionment cycle.
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Jared Gans, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2025
Last year, the Brennan Center for Justice predicted that the state was on track to lose four more congressional districts in reapportionment in 2030, leaving California with just 48 House seats.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Michael Li, senior counsel in the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program, said Friday the Census Bureau’s new estimates indicated there might be a slightly less dramatic 2030 reapportionment across the nation.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Utah Congressional District 4 Utah’s 4th congressional district first appeared after the 2010 Census reapportionment.
—Andrew Depietro, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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Jared Gans, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2025
Last year, the Brennan Center for Justice predicted that the state was on track to lose four more congressional districts in reapportionment in 2030, leaving California with just 48 House seats.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Michael Li, senior counsel in the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program, said Friday the Census Bureau’s new estimates indicated there might be a slightly less dramatic 2030 reapportionment across the nation.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Utah Congressional District 4 Utah’s 4th congressional district first appeared after the 2010 Census reapportionment.
—Andrew Depietro, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reapportionment
Noun
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Under the apportionment process, agencies are given limited authority to spend funding allocated by Congress in installments.—
Aris Folley,
The Hill,
12 May 2025
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The text was pretty simple: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In short, fate’s distribution of long straws is wildly capricious.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
12 May 2025
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The state agency said by the end of last year, 516 distribution locations provided food to communities coming from 131 producers across Connecticut.—
Lisa Hagen,
Hartford Courant,
12 May 2025
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Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated.—
Armando Garcia,
ABC News,
9 May 2025
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The Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Division has issued new guidance that limits the expiration of driver’s licenses and ID cards for legal immigrants to one year from issuance.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
6 May 2025
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“Reapportionment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reapportionment. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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