Jack Kingston: “The Commerce, State and Justice bill has become part of the Clinton regain-credibility-by-shutting-down-the-government…”

“The Commerce, State and Justice bill has become part of the Clinton regain-credibility-by-shutting-down-the-government strategy. We have a disagreement, or let us say Clinton has a disagreement. He wants to renege on last year's promise and shut down the government using any excuse to do it. And what was last year's bipartisan agreement? To maintain two tracks on the census: Number one, the constitutional route. Remember that little rule book so carefully crafted by our Founding Fathers which many on this side and the administration consider a suggestion book, but the Constitution says, ``You will count people head by head to make sure no one is left out and no one, wink wink, is put in who doesn't exist.'' And then the Number Two: There is the polling method advocated by the President. The polling method is where we simply go out and we sample some of the population, we fill in the blanks on whatever discretion or whatever numbers we need. That is what this argument is about. Now think about this administration who has politicized the FBI, the BATF, the Immigration Service, the National Park Service, the Travel Service, the USDA and the EPA. Now they are doing the census service by bringing them into politics.”