Mark Souder: “It used to be years ago in the schools they taught the Constitution. Constitution said you actually have to count…”

“It used to be years ago in the schools they taught the Constitution. Constitution said you actually have to count people. You cannot guess. I have a business undergraduate degree, a business graduate degree as well. I have worked in the private sector before I came into government. It is far too important and constitutional that we have to count people. We cannot use statistical sampling. It can be part of a procedure to try to establish parameters, but you actually have to have real people to know how to assign block grants and dollars, how to assign congressional districts. Furthermore, we seem to have lost, in the whole education debate, what our Founding Fathers intended and what we have done here. That is that local parents and local school boards are going to make the decisions on education, not some fountain of wisdom in Washington, where they do not know our kids names, where they do know the differences between the school districts. We cannot micromanage decisions here in Washington.”