He’d like to just keep it in the Oversight Committee.

This bill isn't about balancing the budget—it's about tax breaks for billionaires and kickbacks to corporate donors and billionaires, while silencing public voices.

None of this is budgetary and this is why they aren’t opening their mouths today.

This is bullshit.

This is NOT Normal.

This is NOT normal.

We can’t just sit here today and pretend like everything is normal.

We are looking at huge potential and catastrophic impacts.

Now I know the question on everyone’s mind is, ‘how can they do this? How is this legal?’ And the answer is, ‘it’s not. It’s not legal.'

the United States Census is absolutely essential to my communities and an accurate count is very essential to my communities because we are tribal communities, we are rural communities, we are low-income communities, and the Census is essential for not only capturing, of course, who is there, what their backgrounds are, where they live, but it is absolutely essential for all of the Federal services that our communities depend on to survive, everything from housing programs to food programs, to roads, you name it, the United States Census is how we make sure that there is a fair assessment.

the real purpose of the Census, which goes back to our founding as a country, goes back to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, where it states very clearly that the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on a count of the whole persons in each state.