[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 339 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.Con.Res.339
                                        Agreed to March 22, 2002        

                      One Hundred Seventh Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
          the twenty-third day of January, two thousand and two


                          Concurrent Resolution

Whereas this Nation's Founding Fathers mandated that a census be 
  conducted once every 10 years, and the decennial census remains the 
  only constitutionally mandated data collection activity today;

Whereas the Congress established a permanent ``Census Office'' in the 
  Department of the Interior on March 6, 1902, and, in 1903, 
  transferred that office to what was then the newly established 
  Department of Commerce and Labor (within which, with more than 700 
  employees, it comprised the largest of that department's new 
  bureaus);

Whereas Federal, State, and local governments use data collected by the 
  Bureau of the Census in the distribution of funds and in the 
  formulation of public policy in such areas as education, health and 
  veterans' services, nutrition, crime prevention, and economic 
  development, among others;

Whereas the Bureau of the Census supplies statistical data to the 
  Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the 
  Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and other 
  Government agencies charged with measuring and reporting on the 
  health of the Nation's economy;

Whereas the Bureau of the Census is the Nation's largest data 
  collection agency, collecting data used by other Government agencies, 
  tribal governments, institutions, universities, and nonprofit 
  organizations, and supplying information on poverty, unemployment, 
  crime, education, marriage and family, and transportation;

Whereas, throughout its first 100 years, the Bureau of the Census has 
  earned a reputation for scrupulously safeguarding the confidentiality 
  of respondents' answers, a responsibility vital to maintaining the 
  public's trust;

Whereas the Bureau of the Census, with the cooperation of other 
  Government agencies, the Congress, State and local governments, and 
  community organizations, and with significant technological 
  innovation and public outreach, has just conducted this Nation's 22d 
  decennial census in a timely and professional fashion, employing over 
  500,000 dedicated Americans in the process; and

Whereas March 6, 2002, marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment 
  of the Bureau of the Census: Now, therefore, be it

    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That the Congress hereby--
        (1) recognizes the 100th anniversary of the establishment of 
    the Bureau of the Census; and
        (2) acknowledges the achievements and contributions of the 
    Bureau of the Census, and of its current and former employees, to 
    the United States.
  Attest:

                                 Clerk of the House of Representatives.

  Attest:

                                               Secretary of the Senate.