Sean Patrick Maloney: “Mr. Speaker, from Friday's Journal Sentential in Milwaukee, ``Census too Important to Ignore'' is the headline, ``There…”

“Mr. Speaker, from Friday's Journal Sentential in Milwaukee, ``Census too Important to Ignore'' is the headline, ``There are also plenty of members of Congress who are now in a huff, saying they sympathize with citizens threatening to fill out their forms. One wonders what these guardians of the public good were doing when they reviewed and apparently approved of the same questions they are now complaining about.'' A certain Senator from the other body who ran for President and lost said and did yesterday what a lot of Members of Congress should do. This particular Senator urged all Americans to fill out the entire census form and to follow the law. I agree with him. And he was a Republican. He says, please fill it out. The good news is that the Census Bureau will follow the law. It will try to get the long form questions answered, because the professionals at the bureau do what the law says, the law Congress passes. They will go out and try to get an accurate photo of this country and report back to Congress.”