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“REGARDING THE 2000 CENSUS” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Commerce was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H6419 on July 24, 1998.
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REGARDING THE 2000 CENSUS
(Mr. WELDON of Florida asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. WELDON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I would like to respond to the errant comments of my colleagues, ill-informed colleagues on the other side of the aisle, regarding the year 2000 census.
Let me suggest that the very same Democrats who self-righteously assure us that the Commerce Department under President Clinton will be immune from politics, if given the opportunity to conduct the census by sampling, would be the very same people who would be screaming, ``Don't play politics with the census'', if a Republican President were trying to do the same thing.
In fact, there is not a single Democrat who would be supporting sampling if the sampling computer magic were not being conducted by the political appointees of the Commerce Department. And let us not forget that the administration that my colleagues suggest is a paragon of integrity is the same administration that used the IRS to smear Billy Dale and the White House travel office employees, the same administration that politicized the Immigration and Naturalization Service in 1996 to illegally approve citizenship for criminal aliens, and, of course, it is the same administration that has done such a good job regarding missile technology secrets from the Communist Chinese.
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