Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to the en bloc package of amendments offered by Chairwoman Maloney. Specifically, I am opposed to the amendments offered by Representative Jackson Lee and Representative Case and will address them each. First, Ms. Jackson Lee's amendment requires the Deputy Director of the Census to appoint a new employee within the Census Bureau whose sole responsibility is to, ``optimize racial and ethnic equity in the decennial Census population.'' The core mission of the Census Bureau, as it already stands, is to conduct an accurate count of all people residing in the United States on Census day when the decennial Census is being conducted. This is the mission for every employee who works on the Census. This new position is completely unnecessary and redundant of the Census Bureau's preexisting mission to count everyone in the United States regardless of their race or ethnicity. Because this amendment appears to be an attempt to inject identity politics into the Census Bureau's work, and because it would duplicate efforts already underway at the Census Bureau, I must oppose. {time} 1715 I turn to Representative Case's amendment, which requires the Census Bureau to create and submit yet another report to Congress, but it fails to require the Census Bureau to actually do anything substantive to improve.…”