Paul Ryan: “The point is we want everyone to be counted. We want to make sure that every person in this country is counted, and by…”

“The point is we want everyone to be counted. We want to make sure that every person in this country is counted, and by voting for the Maloney amendment we will effectively be voting to deprive local government officials from having the ability to take a look at the data, to simply say after the numbers have been counted let us pour over the maps and make sure nothing was missed. Now the last speaker just said that this is delaying, this is obstructing, this is politicizing. It is nothing of those kinds. We have quote after quote after quote of Democratic Members of Congress, Democratic mayors, Democratic Governors, supporting post-census local review. Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago; former Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles; the Dean of Congress, the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Dingell); the former chairman of the Subcommittee on Census, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Sawyer). We have quotes from so many different Democratic Members of Congress who when they were in the majority were the strongest advocates for post-census local review. Now that has changed. They seem to be opposing it.”