How To Fix Congress

Congress, poor congress sometimes you just have to feel sorry for them. I mean of the three branches they really do the most work, get very little credit, and take most of the blame. Currently they have a 22% approval rating so I thought that now would be a good time to talk about How To Fix Congress(I bet you guessed I was going to say that).

So here is how I would reform Congress, keep the Senate the way it is(Two Senators per state) and get rid of the House of Representatives and replace it with the new and improved House of Representatives(the House of Representatives Beta is you will). What will happen every two years is that people go and vote for their senator(if one is up for reelection) and for which party they like the best.

Then the total votes for each party is tallied and they assign the seats in this way: Let's say that the Republicans got 45%, The Democrats got 52%, The Libertarians got 2%, and the Green Party got 1% then the Republicans get 180 seats that they can fill with whoever won their primaries, The Democrats get 208 seats that they can fill with whoever won their primaries, the Libertarians get 8 seats which they can fill with....... you guessed it! whoever won their primaries, and the Green Party get 4 seats which they can fill with whoever won their primaries.

There would be about 400 seats in The House of Representatives and they would be assigned proportionally. The only problem that I can see is what would happen to those who got less than 1% of the vote, I think that there would probably have to be a law that says that if you get less than .25% of the vote you don't get a seat.

This new system would both give third parties a chance and give those running against incumbents a fair chance. Also coalitions would need to form enhancing bipartisanship.