[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 37 (Wednesday, March 29, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H1483-H1484]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 URGING HOUSE MEMBERS TO ENCOURAGE CONSTITUENTS TO RETURN CENSUS FORMS

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, Census forms are due. The Census form, the

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short form, is impressively short. It takes less than 10 minutes to 
fill out. I urge Members to help raise consciousness and raise the heat 
to get these forms back.
  I am having a job fair in my district today at the Convention Center 
from 4 to 10 p.m. to recruit Census enumerators at a rate of $15 to $17 
per hour. It may sound like a lot, but actually, the cost to send live 
bodies out to count live bodies is about twice that.
  To save the government money, Members need to be visible in urging 
constituents to return their forms, and at least have a job fair for 
good jobs for people to help us correct the undercount.

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