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John Sarbanes: “We reached agreement with the President, and the Government continued to function on the basis of the continuing…”

On the recordJanuary 4, 1996
We reached agreement with the President, and the Government continued to function on the basis of the continuing resolution. Now you have an instance in which you have just brought the Government to a partial shutdown by not providing a continuing resolution and not working out the differences that were connected with the veto of the appropriations bills. The Senator mentioned the Bureau of the Census, and he sort of dismissed it. The United States has done a decennial census every year since 1790. That was when the first census was done. We have done a census every 10 years since then. Does the Senator think that we should do a decennial census in the year 2000?
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John Sarbanes
Democratic · Maryland
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of a government shutdown and the importance of the decennial census.

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