Nancy Pelosi: “I do hope, as the process moves on, that I will be able to support the bill, because dealing with all of the issues that…”

“I do hope, as the process moves on, that I will be able to support the bill, because dealing with all of the issues that we have to deal with, as has been mentioned, there are some controversial ones. One of them deals with the children of America. I do not know if Members have seen, but a couple of weeks ago Columbia University released a study that said that one in four children under the age of six in America lives in poverty. How could this be, in a country this great? Maybe one of the reasons is that we do not have an accurate count of our children. Fifty-two percent of the undercount in the 1990 Census were children. They represent 25 percent of those counted but 52 percent were part of the undercount, a gross undercounting of the children. That is why I support the Mollohan amendment, because I think it addresses the controversy of the Census in a very, very smart way.”