Uncapping the House of Representatives versus term limits for members of Congress

Back on August 9th of last year I made a post talking about reforming the United States government. I'd like to narrow down the focus to Congress and more specifically the House of Representatives. A lot of ideas have been bandied about on how to "fix" congress, most often the idea of term limits to weaken the power of individual congressmen and the ability of lobbyists to buy votes. I used to be a supporter of term limits since someone sitting in Congress for 40 years seemed contrary to the idea of a representative democracy.

However a comment I once read somewhere long forgotten changed my opinion. Enacting term limits would result in politicians 'waiting out' a rival's term hoping for a more favorable congress. Then newly elected officials would 'wait out' those politicians and the cycle would continue indefinitely.

Now I believe the best way to rein in the power of individual congressmen in to increase the number of congressmen. The line of thinking is that by increasing the number it would require a greater consensus to achieve legislation while simultaneously making it prohibitively more expensive for corporate lobbyists to buy the necessary number of votes to pass favorable legislation.

I propose we start by increasing the number of representatives to 573 using first the Wyoming Rule and after the next census to 695 using the Cube root rule. Of course, this is not such a simple fix and would require Americans to vote for parties outside the Democrat-Republican dichotomy but it would be a start.