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Gerry Connolly: “I thought I heard from your testimony that maybe there was a more malign purpose behind adding a question that formerly…”

On the recordJanuary 8, 2020
I thought I heard from your testimony that maybe there was a more malign purpose behind adding a question that formerly has not been asked in the census survey, as I understand it, since 1950.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly questions the motives behind adding a citizenship question to the census.

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