If a few members have their way, the Minnesota Legislature would be smaller.

A bipartisan bill, introduced in the House, would reduce the size of the House from 134 members to 112 members and reduce the size of the Senate from 67 members to 56 members. (Update: the Senate has introduced a similar bill. View it here.)

Another bill, with two House Republican sponsors, would shrink the House to 128 members and the Senate to 64 members as long as the state keeps eight congressional districts. If the state's number of districts shrinks or grows by one, after the 2020 Census, the number of Senators would be set at 63 and the number of House members at 126.

In the past, lawmakers have periodically tried to legislate some colleagues out of jobs by shrinking their numbers. Former Gov. Jesse Ventura, with some legislative support, even pushed the idea of a unicameral Legislature. (Gov. Mark Dayton has said he is not a fan of the idea of a one-body Legislature. )

None of those ideas passed the Legislature.