Sean Patrick Maloney: “Mr. Speaker, this is the civil rights issue of the decade. We know what the last Census gave us. We know that millions…”

“Mr. Speaker, this is the civil rights issue of the decade. We know what the last Census gave us. We know that millions of Americans were missed, and that these Americans that were missed were primarily minorities and the poor from both urban and rural areas. We should let the Census Bureau correct the undercount and give us an accurate count. The Republican bill is a Trojan horse. It is designed for one purpose and one purpose only, which is to delay and delay and delay, delay designed to prevent the Census Bureau from reporting the most accurate numbers possible to the American people by the statutory deadline. We must not let that happen. Support the Maloney amendment and vote no on H.R. 472.”