This assertion seems like a thinly veiled pretext to exclude immigrants and racial minorities from being counted, literally and figuratively.

There were not fine people on the sides of the Ku Klux Klan or the neo-Nazis.

As I understand it, your argument is that the Constitution forecloses the ability to ask about the presence of noncitizens in the country.

The conduct of the decennial census was never supposed to be a political function.

Its intent is to frighten people in immigrant communities from participating in the census.

Can I just submit something for the record, a Law Review article?

Adding an unvetted citizenship question to the census will not only undermine the Constitution's mandate.

If the administration truly wanted to strengthen enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, it would push legislation to address the Shelby County decision and restore the Voting Rights Act to its full effectiveness.

Such bigotry should have no place in American life.

Shouldn't the students, if they are a recognized student group, at the very least, have the opportunity to invite people to campus?

I mean, of course, what we're interested in is terminating the underlying practices that are wasting public resources that should be going to people who are in need, right?

Mr. Raskin. Do the kinds of waste, fraud, and abuse that you identified in the Hardest Hit program afflict the other programs under TARP as well?

But it's a matter of administrative discretion, right? It was not built into TARP itself.

Mr. Raskin. Mr. Chair, thank you very kindly.

But they're also, I think, mutilating the great old-fashioned art of American heckling.

Mr. Chairman, thank you very much.

the expenditures that are reported here are kind of eye-popping.

Under the First Amendment, whether it's religious or secular, they've got a right to develop whatever public philosophy they want about education, don't they?

Here are the principles, and here's what's getting to get you sent to jail. And we're very serious about enforcing this, because it's the public's money and it's people who need it.

And if there's billions of dollars that are sitting around that still haven't been programmed, I would like you to reconsider why all these other States, including my own, were roped off from it.

The Hardest Hit program was set up to provide targeted aid to families in States that were decimated by the downturn of the housing markets.

Those people who consider themselves on the left, as Dr. Weinstein puts it, who are going to meetings and just shouting people down are not only portraying the great principle of the freedom of speech and discourse and debate that…

I'm not quite sure why you would describe Adam Smith as a conservative as opposed to a liberal. He, of course, was a great liberal economist and philosopher.

I think everybody here is agreeing that the First Amendment should apply in full force in a robust way on public campuses.

I would love it if Treasury would present us a legal memorandum analyzing whether you've got the authority to include the large parts of America that were excluded from the program.