Sean Patrick Maloney: “it is not only the National Academy of Sciences, it is every statistical association. We have many editorials that I…”

“it is not only the National Academy of Sciences, it is every statistical association. We have many editorials that I would like to put in the Record from clear across the country supporting modern scientific methods. Also it was approved by the Bush Administration, and Dr. Barbara Bryant put the plan in place under the Bush Administration. We were moving forward with a plan to count everyone. The only person that I know who objects to it is the Republican National Committee that has raised many objections to getting an accurate count of all Americans. Mr. Chairman, I include for the Record the following editorials: Editorials Y2K II There'll certainly be hell to pay if the nation's banking, power and communication systems shut down because computers confuse the year 2000 with the year 1900. Government will get blamed for not doing enough in advance to handle the problem. But at least public officials will be able to say that the disaster was not originally of their making. That's not the case with the second Y2K meltdown that's impending: a failed 2000 Census, which took another step toward reality yesterday in the House Appropriations Committee. On a party-line vote the committee's Republicans moved to give the Census Bureau only half of its funding for next year and to release the rest next March--if and when Congress has voted on how the census should be conducted.”