[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 24, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H1602]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           CENSUS UNDERCOUNT

  (Ms. SANCHEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SANCHEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of an accurate 
Census, and the use of adjusted data to compensate for the chronic 
undercount of people that occurs in each Census.
  In 1990, the Census missed almost 21,000 people in my congressional 
district in Orange County. This is the equivalent of over $54 million 
lost over a 10-year period. Only nine of California's 52 congressional 
districts were more undercounted than my own. We lost a lot of money, 
and we pay taxes.
  In the city of Anaheim, my own hometown, we were undercounted by over 
7,000 people, and as a result, Anaheim lost $1.5 million in Federal 
funding, job training, law enforcement, emergency shelters. These were 
all underfunded because we were not getting our Federal dollars. It 
would have made our streets safer, we would have had shelter for the 
homeless, we could have trained the unemployed.
  I urge my colleagues to support the use of adjusted Census data, and 
challenge them to make all Americans count.

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