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today, I would like to bring to the attention of the House the problems with the failing U.S. sugar program. The sugar daddy of corporate welfare is one of the most egregious programs that we have in the Federal Government, and it is now…
Census 2000 is underway. If my colleagues have not received their form, they will receive it shortly. Please complete that form and send it back as soon as possible. It is so important for this country and our own communities because so…
the census is just weeks away. In fact, in remote regions of our Nation such as Alaska, the enumeration has already begun. Next month, 119 million households will receive their census forms in the mail. One of the most important tools the…
Mr. Speaker, one thing we all agree on is that we want to have the most accurate count responsible. This is a constitutional responsibility. Article 1 of our Constitution requires us to do this every 10 years. Since Thomas Jefferson did…
I wish to rise in strong support of the H.R. 170, the Deceptive Mail Prevention and Enforcement Act and thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. McHugh) and also the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. LoBiondo) for their support in bringing this…
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…
today is a day we should feel good, feel positive, feel happy, because there are some great accomplishments that we should be proud that have been announced this week and that we are going to pass on the floor here today. We are hearing…
I think the process, I have to agree with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, it is very limited and everybody gets what they want within that small group. I do not agree with my colleagues on everything because I think one of…
I am opposed to the agriculture appropriations bill. This is a difficult issue for me as a member of the Committee on Appropriations to stand before this body and advocate opposition to an appropriation bill. Unfortunately, I have such…
I urge my colleagues, especially those on my side of the aisle, to oppose this amendment. As I said earlier, this is an irresponsible amendment because it takes $2.8 billion out of the census and does not replace it. We have to pay for the…
It has been a pleasure to serve with the gentleman this year on the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies and to bring this appropriations bill to the floor today, which I very strongly support. The…
one of the reasons it is more expensive this time around is we have a problem with something called a differential undercount. That is wrong. The differential undercount is that certain segments of our population are undercounted in a…
Mr. Speaker, post-census local review is a very straightforward, commonsense idea used by the Census Bureau in 1990. It is a voluntary program that allows local governments to check for mistakes by the Census Bureau that may have left…
Mr. Speaker, during the debate the other side kept referring to sampling, sampling, sampling, and I keep saying the Supreme Court ruled it illegal. So we just need to do the best job we can and address the undercount. Yes, there was an…
It is amazing that we keep talking about sampling. The Supreme Court settled the issue. The issue of distribution of funds is not a constitutional question. We are talking about apportionment and redistricting. That is the constitutional…
In less than 12 months we will be conducting the 2000 decennial census. We all share a common goal, everybody in this room and everybody in America should, that we want the most accurate census possible. It has to be a legal census and it…
I rise in opposition to the Maloney amendment. It is, basically, a gutting amendment. It just guts the whole idea of post-census local review. We know in 1990 there were 400,000 errors that were determined. We added 125,000 people. I think…
I am amazed that there is so much opposition to this proposal. It was used in 1990, and it is about getting the most accurate, trusted and legal census possible. In 1990 it addressed 400,000 mistakes. It corrected 400,000 mistakes…
As I mentioned, we in the committee yesterday marked up bills to improve the census, and you would think they would want to have the ideas of Congress, like the post-census local review. Give those local officials like they had in 1990 a…
We talk about truth and working together. Yesterday we marked up seven bills in the Committee on Government Reform to improve the census. We mentioned one that involves trust and local officials that we have talked about, the mayors and…
There is one bill that the minority did support and this is one that the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Meek) was pushing and I was supportive of, and this is something that came out in the hearings in Phoenix also with the tribal leaders…
I appreciate that. Our visit to Arizona was very enlightening because every area is different in this country. The gentleman's district is very different from the district of the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Meek), and again the…
I completely agree. That is a great way, as we conclude this discussion this evening, to explain what we are really trying to accomplish, is just count everyone because everyone counts in this great country. There is no excuse for somebody…
reclaiming my time, it is so frustrating dealing with this administration to have a Clinton set of numbers and a Supreme Court approved set of numbers. We have been telling them for years it is illegal. I do not know where they get their…
One of the other ones that was interesting in the debate yesterday, and this came out of our hearing out in Phoenix and in Miami, and one of the things that the tribal leaders, for example, and representatives of communities in Miami like…
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