Federal · Title 2 — The Congress
2 U.S.C. § 2b: Number of Representatives from each State in 78th and subsequent Congresses
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Each State shall be entitled, in the Seventy-eighth and in each Congress thereafter until the taking effect of a reapportionment under a subsequent statute or section 2a of this title , to the number of Representatives shown in the statement transmitted to the Congress on January 8, 1941 , based upon the method known as the method of equal proportions, no State to receive less than one Member.
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