[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 81 (Wednesday, June 11, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3667]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              SAMPLEMATICS

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, to understand why the President vetoed the 
disaster bill, thus denying many of the victims the needed relief, we 
have to understand samplematics. Sample matics is yet another Democrat 
attempt to redo mathematics as we know it.
  It works like this. Let us look at traditional math. The traditional 
math will tell us, if we have 10 people in this House, 5 in this House, 
and 10 in this House, we would have a total of 25 people. Correct? 
Similar Math 101, no big problem.
  Samplematics, according to the Democrats, if we have 10 people in 
this building, we count 10; 5 in this one, we count 5. The third 
building, we take a lunch break, so we just say, well, that building 
might have 50 people in it; and, therefore, we come up with 65.
  Even though the Constitution, even though the law says we have to 
count people in a census head by head, what the Democrats want to do is 
give census the day off and say, estimate when you feel like it. That 
is samplematics. That is why the President of the United States 
canceled disaster relief, and that is why we in Congress have to send 
him a message to quit playing games and give the people the relief they 
need.

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