Jeff Miller: “Mr. Speaker, we as representatives bring a unique ability to the census to help make it the most accurate possible.…”

“Mr. Speaker, we as representatives bring a unique ability to the census to help make it the most accurate possible. There are 435 of us and each of us represents a little different area. Several that have spoken today each have their own individual problems. My district in Florida, Sarasota, and Bradenton, in Florida, have large numbers of retirees. A lot of them are just what we call ``snow birds'' that come down temporarily from northern States. They live in mobile home parks, they live in high-rise condos, and they create a problem of how do we count them. We have, because of agriculture, a certain number of immigrant migrant workers that are hard to count. The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gonzalez) is close to the Mexican border. He has a very difficult challenge to have people counted. The district of the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Maloney) is actually, surprisingly, Manhattan, a very affluent area, but, again, a very difficult area to count. Because of the high-rise co-ops that are there, it makes it hard to get in to count people. But the fact is we all can contribute something.”