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Kendrick Meek: “reclaiming my time, I trust the gentleman, but I do not trust those other people helping you make these decisions…”

On the recordAugust 5, 1998
reclaiming my time, I trust the gentleman, but I do not trust those other people helping you make these decisions, because if we do not use some people in the neighborhood, we will not get an accurate count. It is fruitless to try to count every person with that old traditional method. It did not work before, it is not going to work now. My appeal to you, to this Congress, is that it is impossible. So I draw one conclusion, and I will sit down: There are some that do not want an adequate census.
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Kendrick Meek
Florida
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Addressing concerns about the accuracy of the census and the methods used for counting.

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