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two senators or assemblymen and these would be people
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fairly close to the people, but not necessarily repre-
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senting along county lines.
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On the bicameral situation, I personally feel
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that the House should be cut down to 80 or 90, and the
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Senate to about 43, if. we were having a bicameral system.
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THE CHAIRMAN: You would make the House 90
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and the Senate about how large?
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SENATOR JAMES: About 40. I think the House
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should be about twice the size of the Senate.
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SENATOR HUGHES: That would do away with the
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guarantee of one for each county in the House.
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SENATOR JAMES: That's right.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Mr. Emanuel?
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DELEGATE EMANUEL: One brief comment. I can
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see from the standpoint of leadership in the houses,
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sitting on my left, where the smaller house is more
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convenient and more efficient to work with, but from the
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standpoint of one of the lesser members of the house,
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I've sat in committees where I've heard it said that a
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35-member committee was too much and unwieldy and I found
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