[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 68 (Wednesday, May 12, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H3006]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        FUNDING FOR 2000 CENSUS

  (Mrs. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss 
funding for the 2000 census, a constitutionally mandated activity that 
will be the largest peacetime mobilization ever undertaken by this 
country.
  Mr. Speaker, funding for the Census Bureau will cease on June 15 
unless Congress acts to change current law. Let me say that I welcome 
the Republican leadership's recognition of the need to eliminate that 
funding deadline and agree with it entirely.
  Republicans and Democrats disagree on the best way to conduct the 
2000 census, but I think we can all agree on one thing, we should not 
shut down the government in little more than 4 weeks over this 
disagreement.
  The Republican leadership has hinted that it may be interested in a 
truce on the census. Let us start by doing something we all agree on. 
Elimination of the June 15 deadline can easily be inserted in the 
supplemental appropriation measure this House will consider shortly.
  I urge all Members of this body, both Republican and Democratic, to 
support such a measure.

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