Jeff Miller: “it is too bad that politics has been brought into play on this issue of the census, because the census should not be a…”

“it is too bad that politics has been brought into play on this issue of the census, because the census should not be a partisan issue. There should not be a Republican census. There should not be a Democratic census. Unfortunately, President Clinton has decided it is going to be his way or no way, and he designed unilaterally this polling technique to use on the census. I know the President has written about all the times he cannot make a decision without reading a poll. They do polling every day at the White House to make decisions. And he says, well, it works for me in politics, I will use polling for the census. Now, everyone says on the other side that we want to count everyone. Well, let me tell my colleagues so everyone knows what the plan is. The plan deletes and does not count 27 million people. Let me repeat that. There are 27 million people, approximately, that are not going to be counted under the Clinton plan because the Clinton plan only wants to count 90 percent of the people to start with. Of course, they want to talk 90 percent of 100 percent, and we do not know what 100 percent is to start with, so they will have to explain that one. But the fact is they are not going to count 27 million people. So how can we count everyone with a plan that does not count those 27 million? He has proposed a plan that is moving towards failure.”