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Alan B. Mollohan: I am sorry. I misunderstood that. It puzzles me how he can develop a position with his learned background that is so at…

On the recordJuly 30, 1998
I am sorry. I misunderstood that. It puzzles me how he can develop a position with his learned background that is so at odds with not only the National Academy of Sciences, which has had three panels look at this issue and in a very scientific way with lots of, I think the gentleman would concede, learned people, had a lot of learned people look at this and conclude after the 1990 failed census, when the Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences to look at it and come up with a better technique and they recommended scientific sampling, how the gentleman's position can line up against the National Academy of Sciences' three panels and about six or seven scientific statistic organizations on the issue, all of whom recommended using this new science in trying to count everyone in this country.
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Alan B. Mollohan
West Virginia

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Discussing the use of scientific sampling in the census during a debate.

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