Kendrick Meek: “in one short minute I just want to say to my colleagues, let us not fool ourselves. You cannot count everyone. Now, you…”

“in one short minute I just want to say to my colleagues, let us not fool ourselves. You cannot count everyone. Now, you say, ``Well, the Constitution says enumeration.'' The Constitution did not define enumeration. It did not say that you could not use a sampling technique. It is going to be difficult and almost impossible for you to count everyone. Show me how you are going to not have the undercount you had in the last two censuses. You overlooked a great proportion of the African-American community and the Hispanic community. Do you want to do that again? Do you want to send that message to this country that we want an undercount? If you look at this chart, you will see that the census had a big undercount in African-Americans. We do not want that again. We want a good count. Let us be real. You cannot do it by counting every head. That is just impossible. Last of all, you cannot count every head. And because you cannot count every head, let us use some scientific methodology that has been proven and approved by the scientific world so there will not be any more of this guessing. Let us have an accurate census. We are tired of inaccurate censuses.”