On the recordJuly 7, 2004
I do rise today to offer an amendment to reduce the budget for the Census Bureau by approximately $174 million. And the reason for that is that this is a particular thing, and let me read from the bill. $173,806,000 is for the reengineered design process for the short-form-only census. In a time of record or near-record deficits, and at any time, one wonders how in the world we can spend $173 million, almost $174 million, on redesigning a form, and a short form at that. And I think the short form probably does need to be redone, but at what cost? And I would suggest to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf) that perhaps they could come back to us next year or the next as we get closer, and we are talking 5 years out, that they could come back to us with a little more reasonable effort about what it takes to redesign a short form.
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