Census to Count Military Abroad
American military personnel stationed overseas will be counted in the 1990 census, but the House on Tuesday blocked a related move to bar the counting of illegal aliens.
The decision to include military personnel in the count was announced by the Commerce Department at the start of a hearing on a bill to require the action.
According to Tuesday’s announcement, the Census Bureau will work with the Pentagon to count the 1.2 million to 1.6 million military and civilian Defense Department workers overseas.
At the same time, the debate over leaving out undocumented aliens was under way both in committee and on the House floor, where Rep. Tom Ridge (R-Pa.) failed in an effort to attach the ban to an appropriations measure.
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