European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday april 3.1988 some states will gain House seats by 2000 Washington a California would gain seven seals in the House of representatives betwee now and the urn of he Century according to unofficial re apportionment estimates released Friday. Texas and Florida would be close behind picking up sin seats each said Kimball w. Brace head of the private consulting firm election data services  Volt and Pennsylvania on the other hand each would lose four seats. Brace s calculation for the year 2000 were baud on new population projections issued thursday by the census Bureau. Brace also looked at the upcoming 19wi congressional re apportionment and concurred with projections released by the congressional research service on thursday. Both Brace and the cars David c Huckabee cautioned however that their estimates Are based on projections and the final result could easily change when the actual census counts arc taken. In i 990, for example Pennsylvania misses a House Seal by Only 14.762 people. Brace said meaning a slight population shift could allow the Keystone state to keep one of its thre Alund seats. Brace also noted that while the projections show continued Strong growth in Texas economic problems in that stale have slowed the population increases in recent years. The constr Ilion requires that scats in the House set by Law Al -135, be redistributed every 10 years. It setup Hec Ynsua id count the people for Hal reason. Other possible complicating factors Brace added Are lawsuits seeking to Force the census Bureau la ignore illegal aliens in its count and a congressional Bill to require adjustment of the count to Odilow for minorities that May be missed. If both of those things arc done they would Proba Bly balance one another according to research by Wil Liam o Harc at the private population reference Bureau. But doing either one and Noi the other could result in some shifts in scats. Here is a rundown of the changes in House seats in 1990 and 2000, As calculated by Brace. The actual  it usually done for the election two years after the census 1992 and 2002 in this Case. The switches shown for the year 2000 arc in Addi Tion