Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I would like to talk about the topic that will be raised by the President this afternoon in the Rose Garden, as I understand, and it is the topic of whether the question of ``Are you a citizen of the United States of America?'' should and could be on the Census. I have introduced a bill, H.R. 1320. This has been introduced last time and this year, and H.R. 1320 is a bill that has asked these questions. It says: What is person number one's legal status? Are you a citizen or a national of the United States? Are you a lawfully admitted permanent resident? Are you none of those things, or do you have an other lawful status? And then it follows up and says: If you have other lawful status, what is that status? Are you here on a green card? Are you here on a student visa? Are you here on a work permit of some kind? So, we need a full inventory of the population of the United States. That was the purpose of the Census, not only for redistricting, but so that we could see how America is growing, in what ways America is growing. And, by the way, we are establishing immigration policy here in the United States Congress by an enumerated power in our Constitution, I might add, and we are doing that with people on that side of the aisle saying: We don't want to know any more than how many homo sapiens we can count within the shores of the United States of America. But they want to know a lot of other minutia if it helps them politically.…”