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While the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has forced the hand of virtually every state legislature this year, causing a handful of states to try something new: abandoning centuries-old precedent and conducting “virtual” sessions where legislators participate in committee functions and floor sessions from home, or from wherever they can connect to the Internet.
It used to be that Republicans were the champions of small government. A corollary: better to give power to the states vs. the federal government, and better to give power to local communities than to state legislatures.
The U.S. Census Bureau projects that Texas and Florida are apt to gain new congressional seats and Electoral College votes after the upcoming decennial census.
