{"id":10296,"date":"2023-03-27T17:57:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T17:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10296"},"modified":"2023-03-27T17:57:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T17:57:07","slug":"the-house-is-about-to-have-435-members-thats-pretty-rare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10296","title":{"rendered":"The House Is About To Have 435 Members. That&#8217;s Pretty Rare."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The last time the U.S. had a full House \u2014 with all 435 of its voting representatives seated \u2014 was nearly three and a half years ago. And even then, it wasn\u2019t full for long. When Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bioguide.congress.gov\/search\/bio\/D000614\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resigned on<\/a>&nbsp;Sept. 23, 2019,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2019\/08\/26\/sean-duffy-says-hes-leaving-congress-september\/2120442001\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to care for his newborn baby<\/a>&nbsp;with a heart defect, he left a House that had had 435 members for all of six days. In the 1,261 days since, there\u2019s been at least one empty seat in the House.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/house-435-members-pretty-rare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/house-435-members-pretty-rare\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The last time the U.S. had a full House \u2014 with all 435 of its voting representatives seated \u2014 was nearly three and a half years ago. And even then, it wasn\u2019t full for long. When Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy resigned on Sept. 23, 2019, to care for his newborn baby with a heart defect, he left a House that had had 435 members for all of six days. In the 1,261 days since, there\u2019s been at least one empty seat in the House.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[542,1383],"class_list":["post-10296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congress","tag-house-of-representatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10297,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296\/revisions\/10297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}