Carolyn Maloney: “We are united in our efforts to stop the RNC from using census mailings for political gain and to fundraise for the RNC.…”

“We are united in our efforts to stop the RNC from using census mailings for political gain and to fundraise for the RNC. Mr. Steele, in particular, the head of the RNC, 5 days after this Congress in a bipartisan vote that was unanimous on both sides of the aisle, mailed out another partisan mailer, raising money for the RNC in an envelope that looked like it was an official document for the Census Bureau. I suggest that Mr. Steele contact the members of his own party before he acts in such a way, because the Republicans supported stopping using the census mailer in any way for partisan gain. Specifically, this Congress passed legislation to stop mailers, fake mailers, look-alike mailers, that made the document look official, like a census document, to open it up. The RNC and others were mailing fundraisers, acting like they were the census. This is wrong. We passed legislation to stop it. It is now under review by the postal department. I have every bit of confidence that they will report that it violated not only the spirit of the law but that it violated the law.”