[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4490]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



     CENSUS BUREAU SHOULD GET AWARD FOR BIGGEST GOVERNMENT SCREW UP

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, if there were an award for the biggest 
government screw up of the year, the Census Bureau would win the award 
going away.
  The Census Bureau, which has been planning the 2000 census for 10 
years, now sent out 120 million pre-notification cards with the wrong 
address. That is right, Mr. Speaker, the wrong address. Most of us 
learned to address a letter by the time we left the third grade. I 
guess the folks at the Census Bureau were absent that day. This from 
the folks who want to use smoke and mirrors to adjust the final results 
of the census.
  The American people know better, Mr. Speaker. The Census Bureau 
certainly has some explaining to do. If the Bureau cannot be trusted to 
address mail properly, how can we trust them with their risky 
statistical scheme.

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