[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 101 (Friday, July 24, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H6419]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       REGARDING THE 2000 CENSUS

  (Mr. WELDON of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELDON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I would like to respond to the 
errant comments of my colleagues, ill-informed colleagues on the other 
side of the aisle, regarding the year 2000 census.
  Let me suggest that the very same Democrats who self-righteously 
assure us that the Commerce Department under President Clinton will be 
immune from politics, if given the opportunity to conduct the census by 
sampling, would be the very same people who would be screaming, ``Don't 
play politics with the census'', if a Republican President were trying 
to do the same thing.
  In fact, there is not a single Democrat who would be supporting 
sampling if the sampling computer magic were not being conducted by the 
political appointees of the Commerce Department. And let us not forget 
that the administration that my colleagues suggest is a paragon of 
integrity is the same administration that used the IRS to smear Billy 
Dale and the White House travel office employees, the same 
administration that politicized the Immigration and Naturalization 
Service in 1996 to illegally approve citizenship for criminal aliens, 
and, of course, it is the same administration that has done such a good 
job regarding missile technology secrets from the Communist Chinese.

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