[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1283]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                              CENSUS 2000

  (Mr. MILLER of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, the census is just weeks away. In 
fact, in remote regions of our Nation such as Alaska, the enumeration 
has already begun. Next month, 119 million households will receive 
their census forms in the mail. One of the most important tools the 
bureau is using to promote returning census forms is called the Census 
in the Schools project, which strives to help students learn what a 
census is and why it is important to them, their families, and the 
community; increase participation in the census 2000; to galvanize 
students, teachers, and families to support the census; and to recruit 
teachers and parents to work as census takers and in other support 
jobs.
  I have participated in several of these census in the schools 
programs in my district and here in the District of Columbia. I can say 
firsthand that the children get enthusiastic about supporting the 
census and getting their parents to return the forms. I encourage all 
my colleagues, both Democrats and Republicans, to conduct a census in 
the schools program in their district to promote this vital, important 
civic responsibility.

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