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We are talking about using sampling. Sampling, we all use it for polling. We read the polls in the newspapers all the time. Politicians use them all the time. Marketing companies will use polling. Polling and sampling is used when you do…
That is your desired, your goal. But then they will come back, they are going to adjust a number. They say, well, your scale shows 193, but we think because your shoes are heavy and your tie weighs so much, we are going to jump that up to…
That is very sad, because we need to have the census to be successful and the most accurate numbers possible, but it has got to be trusted by the American people. As I say, every city councilperson in this country, county commissioner…
I think that Senator Breaux, a Democrat from Louisiana, and Senator Kerrey, a Democrat from Nebraska, and other Members are advocating a way to save the Medicare program for the future. Ten of the 16 Members, according to the newspaper…
yesterday the Census Bureau announced a new plan to conduct the decennial census in the year 2000. It was disappointing. The Census Bureau has flip-flopped and now wants to have a two-number census. What they want is that, after the…
for the second time in my adult life, I have watched ``a long national nightmare'' unfold. I am as anxious for this to be over as I was for the Watergate saga to end. But that does not absolve me of my responsibility to do what I think is…
last evening, a meeting was held in my office with two senior Democrats to discuss the issue of the 2000 Census. It is unfortunate that not only was the confidence of this meeting broken, but my position was misrepresented. Obviously…
the Republicans want to move in one direction, the Democrats in another. This year, like every year on almost every single spending bill, the division is quite clear. Republicans want to cut back on the size of government, the Democrats…
S. 2071 extends for 7 years the Quarterly Financial Report Program administered by the Secretary of Commerce. Current authorization for the program expires at the end of the fiscal year. The Quarterly Financial Report Program is a survey…
It is a very critical and very important issue to my constituents back in Sarasota, Florida, because it was a horrible, horrible crime that was committed last November. What we are concerned with in this legislation is not so much the case…
there has been a lot of exaggeration on the other side about what has been done with the census. Let us make sure we understand. First of all, the plan proposed by the President does not count 26 to 27 million people; does not count 26 to…
Unfortunately this issue has become very politicized, and that is wrong because the census should not be part of the political debate here, it should be just counting people in this country, not speculating and guesstimating by utilizing…
this week we will be debating the appropriation for the Year 2000 Decennial Census. The census is something that is required by our Constitution and is very fundamental to our entire democratic system of government, because most elected…
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…
That is what is in this bill, and the Mollohan amendment just wants to put off the decision and say only the President can make the decision and Congress is irrelevant. That is not the Democratic way.
In the Clinton budget submitted this past February the President talked about a March 1 date when the decision will be made. That is when we should make the decision.
the test in Paterson, New Jersey is a good illustration of why polling does not work. We have got real problems with polling, especially when you get down to census block level. When you get down to census blocks and census tracks, the…
We need to have actual counts. We should not use polling. And we need to work together to trust the system of government. It is too important to play politics with this issue. The President is playing politics with it. It is very clear. We…
Reclaiming my time, they were a hand-picked panel. We can create a panel of prestigious academics, will come up with a different study.
Polling is based on sampling. Sampling is very appropriate where you do not have the time and money to go out and do an actual count. This is a $4 billion thing. This should not be the largest statistical experiment in history. That is…
We need to trust the system. It has to be done where we work together, Republican and Democrats, and we should not delegate it. It is our responsibility, not their responsibility. We need the input and advice of all the sources, but it is…
The Academy of Sciences study. It was a very partisan Democrat that led the study. There is a division within the academic community, and if I was a statistician looking at this, I would say, wow, the largest statistical experiment in…
the Academy of Sciences is generally a respected organization, but it has been politically used. It was a hand-picked panel. For example, the chairman of the panel was a very partisan Democrat, Mr. Schultz, who, as my colleagues know, was…
Well, I taught at Georgia State University Atlanta, taught statistics for many years. It was the Department of Quantitative Methods up there. I taught at the graduate and undergraduate level, and the MBA. I have taught statistics for years…
by the time we are done debating campaign finance, it will probably be the longest debate the House has seen in a long time. Throughout this debate, one particular theme has resounded again and again, disclosure. We take it as self-evident…
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