[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3373 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3373

  To provide for a study relating to the feasibility of using postal 
                    employees as census enumerators.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 2009

 Mr. Chaffetz introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for a study relating to the feasibility of using postal 
                    employees as census enumerators.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) the Bureau of the Census needs an accurate count, based 
        on all households in the United States, to conduct a decennial 
        census;
            (2) the Bureau of the Census spends years and billions of 
        taxpayer dollars to find and then verify where all such 
        households are located;
            (3) the Bureau of the Census relies on part-time 
        enumerators to assist in the constitutionally mandated 
        decennial census; and
            (4) the United States Postal Service has more experience 
        than any other organization in finding and delivering services 
        to all households in the United States, and is thus uniquely 
        positioned to assist the Bureau of the Census to achieve a 
        complete and accurate enumeration of the population.

SEC. 2. STUDY.

    The United States Postal Service shall study and submit a written 
report to the appropriate committees of Congress, by not later than 
January 1, 2012, on the feasibility of using postal employees to serve 
as enumerators in the 2020 decennial census of population.
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