[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
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[H. Con. Res. 339 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 339


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 13, 2002

     Received and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the Bureau of the Census 
             on the 100th anniversary of its establishment.

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.

            Passed the House of Representatives March 12, 2002.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.