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Title: Senate blocks census US-citizenship question
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Yahoo News
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105 ... congress_counting_immigrants_1
Published: Nov 6, 2009
Author: ANDREW TAYLOR
Post Date: 2009-11-06 04:28:50 by noone222
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Views: 129
Comments: 5
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats have blocked a GOP attempt to require next year's census forms to ask people whether they are a U.S. citizen. The proposal by Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter was aimed at excluding immigrants from the population totals that are used to figure the number of congressional representatives for each state. Critics said Vitter's plan would discourage immigrants from responding to the census and would be hugely expensive. They also said that it's long been settled law that the apportionment of congressional seats is determined by the number of people living in each state, regardless of whether they are citizens. A separate survey already collects the data. The plan fell after a 60-39 procedural vote made it ineligible for attachment to a bill funding the census.
Poster Comment: Most people in America have no conception as to their legal citizenship status, nor what that even means. It's no wonder this proposal was shot down. We can't have the mullets considering their citizenship status or the associated implications. (Note: They also said that it's long been settled law that the apportionment of congressional seats is determined by the number of people living in each state, regardless of whether they are citizens.
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#1. To: noone222 (#0)
With all this "folding in" of illegals to the body politic by government, then it makes perfect sense for the Dems to have included illegals in the health care reform bill. Illegals are "like citizens", yes? And indeed, The Nesters have said that illegals need to be kept healthy in order for us to be healthy.
Why have the Dems blocked this.? Maybe because Obummer ain't a U.S. citizen.?
Maybe because Obummer ain't a U.S. citizen.? Read NAFTA silly. And the subsequent agreements Bush signed. It's called the free flow of trade and people from one N.AM country to another. The GOP are just acting as the fake opposition.
One down (Kennedy), 484 to go !
SPAMerica, a nation of internet litterbugs.
They also said that it's long been settled law that the apportionment of congressional seats is determined by the number of people living in each state, regardless of whether they are citizens.
#2. To: noone222 (#0)
Democrats have blocked a GOP attempt to require next year's census forms to ask people whether they are a U.S. citizen.
#3. To: noone222 (#0)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#4. To: sizzlerguy (#2)
Why have the Dems blocked this.?
#5. To: Rotara (#3)
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