POPULATION

Bills and resolutions

Bureau of the Census: make participation in the American Community Survey voluntary, except with respect to certain basic questions (see S. 3079), S3084 [10MY]

Census: acknowledge surveys and information derived from those surveys are crucial to national welfare (see S. Con. Res. 57), S5978 [2AU] (see H. Con. Res. 136), H5707 [2AU]

——— celebrate release of 1940 census and commend Bureau of the Census and National Archives and Records Administration efforts to maintain information (see H. Res. 637), H2274 [27AP]

——— provide for the more accurate and complete enumeration of members of the Armed Forces in any tabulation of total population (see S. 2470), S2823 [26AP] (see H.R. 5321), H2274 [27AP]

Housing Act: revise census data and population requirements for areas to be considered rural areas (see S. 3541), S6340 [13SE] (see H.R. 6416), H6060 [14SE]

Postal Service: prohibit closure or consolidation of any postal facility located in a ZIP code with a high rate of population growth (see H.R. 4161), H1272 [7MR]

Taxation: revise the new market tax credit rules for population census tracts with low populations (see H.R. 5718), H2645 [10MY]

Remarks in House

Bureau of the Census: American Community Survey funding, H2507–H2509 [9MY]

——— prohibit funding to enforce criminal penalty on individuals who choose not to participate in the American Community Survey, H2505–H2507 [9MY]

Census: acknowledge surveys and information derived from those surveys are crucial to national welfare (H. Con. Res. 136), E1443 [3AU]

Foreign aid: provide assistance for the prevention and treatment of obstetric fistula (H.R. 949), E353 [8MR]

Remarks in Senate

Census: acknowledge surveys and information derived from those surveys are crucial to national welfare (S. Con. Res. 57), S5993 [2AU]

Reports filed

U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) Funding Prohibition: Committee on Foreign Affairs (House) (H.R. 2059) (H. Rept. 112–361), H25 [17JA]

Texts of

S. Con. Res. 57, acknowledge census surveys and information derived from those surveys are crucial to national welfare, S5994 [2AU]