Sean Patrick Maloney: “I rise to amend the fiscal year 2002 appropriations of the U.S. Census Bureau. My intent, Mr. Chairman, was to make sure…”

“I rise to amend the fiscal year 2002 appropriations of the U.S. Census Bureau. My intent, Mr. Chairman, was to make sure that the Census Bureau have adequate funds to produce a special report on the data from the service-based enumeration from the 2000 census. While those data are included in the tables that are currently being released, they are not in a form that is easily accessible so that local governments can access this information. In the 2000 census, the Census Bureau made a major effort to count people with no usual residence. They counted people at shelters, they counted people at food kitchens, they counted people at mobile food vans, and they counted people on the streets. This effort is similar to past censuses. What was different in 2000 was the Census Bureau's very important partnership program, which the chairman and I worked very hard to implement. As a result of the emphasis in 2000 on partnering with local governments and community groups, the service-based enumeration was qualitatively different than in the past.”