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On the recordMay 27, 2019
the idea, the notion, that every single person who rests, who has their feet on the ground of the United States, in the land of the United States of America is to be counted, and that is written into our Constitution.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

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Ocasio-Cortez discusses the constitutional principle of counting every person in the Census.

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