[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 135 (Thursday, October 1, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H9191]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            CENSUS SAMPLING

  (Mr. PETERSON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PETERSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, from day 1, this 
administration has conducted affairs of state more like King George 
than George Washington. Its ethic has been summed up in the book title 
by Clinton hit-man James Carvel: ``We're Right and You're Wrong.''
  Now, in the latest census sampling wrinkle, the Clinton people show 
they are willing to ignore Federal Court rulings in pursuit of their 
agenda. Two separate decisions have declared it illegal to sample the 
population for the purposes of congressional reapportionment. Yet 
administration officials continue to forge ahead anyway with plans to 
sample in the next census, spending millions on a discredited idea at a 
time when preparations for the 2000 Census are at a very critical 
stage.
  It is almost as if the Clinton Commerce Department wants the next 
census to fail so that the political pressure for their sampling agenda 
will be even greater in 2010.
  Mr. Speaker, it is past time for the President to begin enforcing the 
laws, even those he does not like.

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