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. (Nov. 15, 1941, ch. 470, § 2(a), 55 Stat. 762 .) Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries Certificates to Executives of States Act Nov. 15, 1941, ch. 470, § 2(b), 55 Stat. 762 , required Clerk of House of Representatives , within 15 days of Nov. 15, 1941 , to send a new certificate of entitlement of a State to Representatives, if such a certificate had been sent prior to Nov. 15, 1941 , under provisions of section 2a of this title .