Lee Terry: “I rise in support of H.R. 472 and against the Maloney amendment. I feel particularly strongly about keeping this…”

“I rise in support of H.R. 472 and against the Maloney amendment. I feel particularly strongly about keeping this initiative in place because of my background as an 8-year member of the Omaha City Council. Post-census local review is a highly successful program which affords local and tribunal governments the opportunity to review housing counts in their jurisdiction and challenge those counts before the census numbers are made final. When local officials in my district and across the country learned of the administration's plan to replace the post-census local review with an estimated second number, they objected, including the mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, Mayor Hal Daub, who submits here today that if the Census Bureau misses a zip code or a housing development, which does happen, we must be provided the opportunity to review and correct that error. At the city level, we feel very strongly that everyone counts in our community and everyone must be counted.”