Roll Call offers this report ($), which begins: “House Democrats from California took their first step last week to stifle future attempts by Republicans in the Golden State and elsewhere to redraw Congressional districts more than once every 10 years. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and 21 other Golden State Democrats last week introduced the Redistricting Reform Act, which would permit state legislatures and executives to modify House districts just once during the 10-year period bookended by national head counts performed by the Census Bureau….Lofgren’s bill, effective after 2010, also would require states to set up bipartisan redistricting commissions picked by state lawmakers; Democrats would pick Republicans and vice versa. Nonpolitical members also could be added to the commissions, according to Lofgren’s plan, while public officials, politicians and party aides would be barred from sitting on the panel.”