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October 19, 2009

Lawmakers Battle on Census Citizenship Question

Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- A measure gaining traction in Congress would require the 2010 Census to include a question about citizenship, a change that would cost millions of dollars and possibly derail a full count.

Two Republican senators, David Vitter of Louisiana and Bob Bennett of Utah, have offered an amendment to a spending bill that funds the Department of Commerce, which oversees the Census Bureau. The amendment would bar any funds from being used for the Census if it doesn't ask about a person's citizenship status. A similar measure has been introduced in the House.

If successful, the change would force the Census Bureau to reprint more than 425 million questionnaires, as it had already started printing the forms in order to have them ready for distribution in early 2010. It...

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Related Topics: David Vitter, Bob Bennett, Bureau of the Census, Congress, Department of Commerce, Utah, Louisiana, Washington

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