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The Senate voted 60 to 39 Thursday to block the amendment by Sens. David Vitter (R-La.) and Robert Bennett (R-Utah) to require 2010 census takers to ask respondents if they are U.S. citizens. Full Article at Politics Daily
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats Thursday blocked a GOP attempt to require next year's census forms to ask people whether they are U.S. citizens. Full Article at Recordnet.com
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from filling out the government forms, which are used not only to apportion congressional seats to the states, but to split trillions of dollars in federal funding. Full Article at Salt Lake Tribune
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The 2010 Census will count the undocumented. Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, advanced a plan to prevent the Census Bureau from counting non-citizens in its conduct of the 2010 Census. Full Article at Chicago Tribune
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WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats Thursday blocked a GOP attempt to require next year's census forms to ask people whether they are U.S. citizens. Full Article at Miami Herald
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It saddens me that we have individuals who have attempted to bring up this very divisive issue and somehow suggest that there is something new going on under this Obama Census Bureau, that they're somehow going to conduct this census in a way that is inconsistent with what's always been done
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The current plan is to reapportion House seats using that overall number, citizens and non-citizens ... I think that's wrong. I think that's contrary to the whole intent of the Constitution and the establishment of Congress as a democratic institution to represent citizens.
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It does not make any sense for congressional seats and the Electoral College to be determined by a process that unfairly provides the advantage to those communities with high illegal populations
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There's always the desire or the inclination to try and preserve seats as they currently exist and where we perceive the power base to be, and Congress is certainly no exception
– Rick Gallot SOURCE: The Monroe News Star
