Census 2000 Plan Dismays Republicans in Congress
The Census Bureau delivered on its promise to send Congress details of its plan for the 2000 national head count, but it wasn’t what Republicans wanted to hear.
The new report details and defends the bureau’s previously announced plans to use statistical sampling to account for people that can’t be reached by census takers.
“Our plan won’t make the census perfect, but it will make it a lot better,” Census Director Martha Farnsworth Riche said Monday.
But Rep. J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) countered, “The fact remains that sampling is a risky scheme of dubious constitutionality.”
The idea of using statistical sampling has many Republicans incensed, fearing that Democrats will benefit from the survey.
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