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Ken Buck: “And what I am suggesting to you is that the breadth of this survey that you are giving undermines the constitutional…”

On the recordJune 8, 2016
And what I am suggesting to you is that the breadth of this survey that you are giving undermines the constitutional requirement that we know how many people live in this country and where they live so that we can have a political system that fairly reflects the one man, one vote, or one person, one vote standard that we all consider so important.
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Ken Buck
Republican · Colorado

Editor's note · Context

Buck expresses concern about the census's intrusiveness affecting representation.

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