American voters and American tax dollars send us all to Washington, DC, to provide for and oversee the census.

How is continuing illegal immigrants--counting illegal immigrants in the census or in the apportionment process not an assault on the fundamental rights of every American citizen?

Make no mistake. The Democrats are simply grabbing power at the expense of the American people again.

Partisan leadership has forced this committee to consider this simple question of having a person identify themselves as citizen on numerous times.

It is unfair. It is biased and it is exactly what we will get if we count illegal immigrants in apportionment.

So, this idea that if we don't count people who are here illegally is going to result in, say, less Federal aid to the city of Chicago, that is not accurate, right?

The president's action restores the concept of representational government envisioned by the Constitution.

We have heard the fear mongering for months from my friends on the left and the liberal media accomplices of the allegations that the responses to the 2020 decennial will fall behind previous decennials.

Simply put, those here illegally should have no say in electing America's leaders.

Including illegal immigrants in the count for representation in Congress only dilutes the representation of all Americans who vote in elections and makes a mockery of our basic principle of one person one vote.

This hearing today is the Democrats' first shot across the bow of Chief Justice Roberts and the other Supreme Court justices.

We, as Congress, need to wake up and stop talking out of both sides of our mouth. In fact, we cannot continue to rely on foreign adversaries to take care of our mineral needs. We can take care of our own needs with our own domestic…