Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I just want to cover and address some of the statements made by the chairwoman regarding my previous statement. She admitted in her statement that several surveys already gather the info that they seek in the underlying bill. Yet, that was a rationale for not asking the citizenship question. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. You are already collecting some of this information, as you admitted, from 5 different agencies, and you want to expand it to 130. You said, well, you guys get it from the Department of Labor statistics on the question of citizenship. Hey, let's get it all across the board. Let's do it all across the board. Same rationale. The chairwoman said the LGBTQ question will be voluntary, but the citizenship question is not. That is simply untrue. If you look at the amendment, that would be there. We discussed this in the committee. All you are doing is you are adding, in some cases, just the word ``citizenship'' to the questions that you are already asking, or you are asking whether or not the respondent is a citizen of the United States. That is voluntary. It is not mandatory. That is just untrue to say that. Then the argument was made that the Supreme Court used a rationale that was inaccurate.…”